American Green By Longreads Feature How did the plain green lawn become the central landscaping feature in America, and what is the ecological cost?
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Four: The Preacher and the Politician By Leah Sottile Feature If America collapses, some see that as an opportunity to reboot society. They say they have God on their side.
The Martha Stewarting of Powerful Women By Ann Foster Feature How society disproportionately demonizes women after they’ve bent the same rules that men have always broken.
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Three: The Widow’s Tale By Leah Sottile Feature When LaVoy Finicum was shot by law enforcement, the anti-government movement called him a martyr. That message is spreading.
Whole 60 By Laura Lippman Feature The Laura Lippman plan requires that you eat whatever you want whenever you want to eat it, and declare yourself beautiful. We’re not going to lie — it’s really hard.
Shelved: Jimi Hendrix’s Black Gold Suite By Tom Maxwell Feature The genius guitarist’s autobiographical, multi-song fantasy album sat in his drummer’s apartment for twenty years. Now in the care of the Hendrix estate, will it ever see the light of day?
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Two: The Hunter and the Bomb By Leah Sottile Feature The story was that a radical man set off a bomb in the desert. But what about everything else that happened?
The Offer of a Two-Night Stand, When Just One Would Do By Suzanne Roberts Feature A guide in Puerto Rico inadvertently leads Suzanne Roberts to stop collecting men as if they were souvenirs.
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter One: A Quiet Man By Leah Sottile Feature When a bomb exploded in a tiny desert town, there was no doubt who did it. But no one could understand why.
The Big Sick By Soraya Roberts Feature Vomit culture keeps repeating on us because who doesn’t enjoy a good puke.
The Cost of Reading By Ayşegül Savaş Feature Ayşegül Savaş contemplates the way women’s and men’s time is valued and the uneven burden taken by women writers in literary citizenship.
Wimbledon: Where Women Wait By Ben Rothenberg Feature Women still aren’t treated equally at Wimbledon.
A Woman In Love Is a Woman Alone By Francesca Giacco Feature On the profound loneliness of female desire in Lisa Taddeo’s “Three Women.”
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Mirrors By Katy Kelleher Feature Mirrors are sparkly and shiny and hypnotic. They’ve fascinated us for thousands of years. And they might show us a lot more about our society’s misplaced priorities than we care to see.
Putin’s Rasputin By Longreads Feature Journalist Amos Barshad meets with “Putin whisperer” Aleksandr Dugin to try to understand how a shadowy advisor exerts influence.
My Unsexual Revolution By Diane Shipley Feature Diane Shipley confronts her history of sexual dysfunction and wonders who decides what ‘normal’ is, anyway.
Remembering João Gilberto By Tom Maxwell Feature Eccentricity was inseperable from this musical innovator’s artistic vision.
Tom Petty’s Problematic Album Southern Accents By Michael Washburn Feature In 1985, one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most beloved songwriters made a regrettable misstep with a narrow conception of Southern identity.
Live Through This: Courtney Love at 55 By lisawhill Feature Lisa Whittington-Hill on why Courtney Love deserves to be the girl with the most cake.
Out of Toon By Soraya Roberts Feature Political cartoons don’t make a huge chunk of change, but they do change the culture. If only that were as valuable to the media as money.
Holding the Pain By Amye Archer Feature Amye Archer explores her own relationship with the shooting at Sandy Hook as she works with survivors to tell their stories.
The Brazilian Healer and the Patron Saint of Impossible Causes By Leigh Hopkins Feature Leigh Hopkins faces the hidden truth about the world’s most famous spiritual surgeon and the irresistible desire to find ‘the cure.’
‘If an Animal Talks, I’m Sold’: An Interview with Ann and Jeff Vandermeer By Alan Scherstuhl Feature Ann and Jeff Vandermeer discuss talking animals, the weird/fantasy divide, and the ‘rate of fey’ as an organizing principle in their new anthology of classic fantasy.
The No. 1 Ladies’ Defrauding Agency By Rose Eveleth Feature What a 19th-century scammer can teach us about women, lying, and economic boom-and-bust cycles
Why Bugs Deserve Our Respect By Jessica Gross Feature Fruit flies helped us win six Nobel prizes in medicine. Architects have been inspired by termite hills. Ecologist Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson explains why bugs are so essential to the world we live in.
The Burdens We Carry By Amy Scheiner Feature Amy Scheiner reflects on her mother’s sudden death and what it means to be a woman in a world that is set up to bury them.
The Sorrowful Mysteries, or Reasons I’m No Longer Catholic By Kathleen McKitty Harris Feature Kathleen McKitty Harris recalls the series of events which led to her departure from the Church.
Two Clocks, Running Down By Colin Dickey Feature In “Time Is a Thing the Body Moves Through,” T Fleischmann resists metaphor, even as they reflect on the metaphor-saturated work of Félix González-Torres.
Shelved: Lee Hazlewood’s Cruisin’ For Surf Bunnies By Tom Maxwell Feature It’s no surprise that the legendary songwriter and producer dabbled in surf music. What’s surprising is why music this good remained unreleased for 50 years.