The Occupation of a Woman Writer By Kiley Bense Feature Our inherited biases about who should write what live deeper than most of us realize or want to acknowledge.
Nashville contra Jaws, 1975 By Longreads Feature In their time, “Jaws” and “Nashville” were regarded as Watergate films, and both were in production as the Watergate disaster played its final act.
‘We Live in an Atmosphere of General Inexorability’: An Interview with Jia Tolentino By Hope Reese Feature Jia Tolentino talks about what kinds of personalities thrive online, why she is suspicious of her own self-narrative, and the pervading sense that everything’s spiraling out of control.
In the Country of Women By Susan Straight Feature Amid badass women and endless stories, a young California writer comes of age in the orange groves as the Golden State comes into its own.
Finding My Father By Natassja Schiel Feature At age thirty-two, after years working as an exotic dancer, the daughter of a mysteriously absentee father finally puts together the pieces that had been missing her whole life.
Towards Chinatown By fluffysharp Feature Faced with the possibility of losing of her mother, Melissa Hung contemplates another loss — of her mother tongue.
Death Proof By Soraya Roberts Feature With ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,’ Quentin Tarantino slakes his thirst for nostalgia while he plays god with another piece of history.
On Silence (or, Speak Again) By Elissa Bassist Feature Elissa Bassist breaks her silence about everything she’s not supposed to talk about and comes out alive.
Shapes of Native Nonfiction: ‘The Basket Isn’t a Metaphor, It’s an Example’ By Colin Dickey Feature The editors of “Shapes of Native Nonfiction” talk about the craft of writing, the politics of metaphor, and resisting the exploitation of trauma.
Memories Dressed Up With Wishes By Grace Linden Feature Siri Hustvedt’s “Memories of the Future” is a fitting book for the #MeToo moment, which is as much about justice and reparations as it is about understanding the logic of memory.
‘My Teachers Said We Weren’t Allowed To Use Them.’ By Tobias Carroll Feature How Cecelia Watson learned to stop worrying and love the semicolon.
Searching for The Sundays By David Obuchowski Feature When music writers are also music fans, they can walk a line between appreciative and intrusive.
An Ocean Away From the Sanctuary of Manhattan, Signs of Peaceful Coexistence By Longreads Feature As a Jewish New Yorker, Candy Schulman is surprised to find a small town in Andalusia celebrating the coexistence of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish cultures, despite the area’s dark racist history.
The Wind Sometimes Feels in Error By Luke O'Neil Feature Each year the balloon strained and strained against its cords.
In a World Full of Cruelty and Injustice, Becoming a Mother Anyway By Eliza Margarita Bates Feature A visit to Auschwitz makes Eliza Margarita Bates only more determined to have a baby, despite her painful chronic illness.
Free Solo By Soraya Roberts Feature On the return of ‘Veronica Mars’ and the power of the solitary woman.
How Do You Move Past a Dad? By Sara Fredman Feature Pamela Adlon’s Better Things is not a riff on the antihero show so much as it is an antidote to it.
Shared Breath By Caitlin Dwyer Feature How does receiving a donated organ affect a person’s sense of self? Caitlin Dwyer explores the lives of organ donor recipients and their intimate relationships with donor families.
‘I Surprise Myself With This Refusal To Let Go’: Kate Zambreno on the ‘Ghostly Correspondence’ By Tobias Carroll Feature “I thought for sure, I’ll never write about Rilke again. I’m done with Rilke! I’m sick of Rilke! Rilke — no more. But then the other day … I just started researching something about Rilke.”
The First Book By Sarah Menkedick Feature Eleven women writers on this apocryphal publishing milestone.
Bonding with My ‘In-Law’ Over Bikini Wax By Lisa A. Phillips Feature When her 13-year-old daughter finds love a stone’s throw away, Lisa A. Phillips confronts the inevitability of first heartbreak.
Reading Lessons By Irina Dumitrescu Feature You never stop learning how to read — probably because you also never stop forgetting how to read.
Understanding Craig Stecyk By Joe Donnelly Feature Stecyk defined Southern California’s subversive, skateboard aesthetic and changed art and culture in the process, but that doesn’t mean he wants to talk about it.
This (Wo)Man’s Work By Soraya Roberts Feature When men devalue the labor of women like Andrea Arnold and overvalue the work of even problematic men, it’s a triple whammy that diminishes the individual woman, women in general, and the overall quality of culture.
A Minor Figure By Longreads Feature While searching for photographs that depict black young women and girls living free in the second and third generations born after slavery, Saidiya Hartman finds a disturbing image.
When to Throw a Goodbye Party By Joy Notoma Feature Joy Notoma grapples with saying goodbye to friends before a move, the complicated grief of shunning, and the way one parting can be a painful reminder of so many others.
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Five: The Remnant By Leah Sottile Feature The Kingdom of Heaven, borne out of blood
A Once and Future Beef By Will Meyer Feature Beef is a major culprit of the climate crisis, but if you want to consider beef’s future, then look to its past. The industry’s tactics have not changed as much as you might think.