My Dog is 10.3% Supermutt By Krista Stevens Because she wants to know everything about him, Kelly Conaboy DNA-tests her rescue dog, Peter Parker.
It’s Time for Real Talk About Aliens By Aaron Gilbreath No time in human history has presented clearer, more compelling evidence that something unexplained is interacting with human beings, be they aliens or UFOs.
Drowning In a River of Murky Thought By Aaron Gilbreath After his high school friend drowns, a young academic’s mind leads him down a dark path of conspiratorial explanations.
How Do You Control One of Nature’s Biggest Rivers? By Aaron Gilbreath The Mississippi River’s infrastructure is aging, and no one can agree who should fix it.
Jared the Menace By Catherine Cusick Sloane Crosley faces the music. Jared’s music. Knock it off, Jared. Jared?! Jared!!!
Climate Change Is Personal for These Alaskan Women By Aaron Gilbreath Here are the voices of the Alaskans threatened by climate change.
Trump Properties As Symbols of American Mediocrity and Lies By Aaron Gilbreath The only thing a tourist who stays at Trump properties gets for free is a disturbing vision of America’s future.
Walking the Line in the Bekaa Valley By Ben Huberman A traveling crew of slackliners is trying to bring a moment of balance to young Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
How to Run a Magazine in the Desert By Aaron Gilbreath Ken Layne designs, edits, and distributes his independent magazine Desert Oracle from tiny Joshua Tree, California.
When Financial Privilege is Mistakenly Assumed By Sari Botton Lilly Dancyger speaks out about her humble upbringing.
Leslie Jamison: Does Recovery Kill Great Writing? By Krista Stevens When Leslie Jamison got sober she wanted to know how a life lived without alcohol would affect her writing.
What Is New York City Without Its Historic Buildings? By Aaron Gilbreath A city loses its life-force when it loses its historic buildings.
The Best Food Is Somewhere Else By Catherine Cusick Why foodies, tourists, and investors love disappearing restaurants.
Giving Tex-Mex Its Due By Aaron Gilbreath Why does Tex-Mex get such a bad rap when it’s a legitimate culinary tradition predating Texas statehood?
Emotional Preparedness for a Dying Planet By Aaron Gilbreath How do we deal emotionally with the many deaths of climate change?
Looking Back On the Last Housing Bubble From the Precipice of the Next One By Sari Botton A decade later, some homeowners still haven’t recovered from the mortgage crisis of 2008.
The Baller Women of the Billiards Tour By Krista Stevens Sometimes men get a little antsy when the women are running the billiards tables.
Dorm Living for Adults By Aaron Gilbreath The new Common co-living company isn’t as communal is it pretends.
One Georgia Farmer’s Experiment in Racial Equality By Aaron Gilbreath Minister Clarence Jordan founded Koinonia Farm in 1942 to be, in his words, a “demonstration plot for the kingdom of God.” Can it endure in our racially charged modern climate?
Homeward Bound: Allegedly a Sea of Sexual Harassment in the Field of Science By Krista Stevens A program to encourage women to take leadership positions in the field of science has sailed into the rough seas of the #metoo movement.
It’s Not a Literary Renaissance When You’ve Been Telling Stories Since the Dawn of Time By Aaron Gilbreath A new Indigenous MFA program is becoming an incubator for Native American writing, free of white Eurocentric standards.
Bernadette Peters Is Not a Child By Catherine Cusick Even Bernadette Peters, as fearless and as formidable as ever, has been described for decades as cute and naïve.
How Jerry and Marge Gamed the Lottery By Krista Stevens All they did was bet big. And they won, time and again.
It Depends on What the Meaning of ‘Consent’ Is By Sari Botton Monica Lewinsky reframes her understanding of sexual consent as it applied to her relationship with Bill Clinton through the lens of the #MeToo moment.
To Be a Lexicographer Is to Surrender to Folly By Ben Huberman On the never-ending, unattainable quest to create the perfect English dictionary.
“My Sparkling Brain”: Dealing with Multiple Sclerosis at Age 27 By Krista Stevens Meredith White finds a way to cope with the weight of knowing she has MS.
The Truth About Writing Fiction From Your Life By Sari Botton A conversation about writing novels that have roots in reality.
But Where Will We Put Uncle Larry? By Krista Stevens When you bury a body, it stays in the cemetery. Cremation presents a whole new issue: where to store the deceased.
How Much Would You Endure to Flee Persecution? By Krista Stevens Now that Europe welcomes migrants no longer, asylum seekers are making nearly impossible journeys through South America to the United States.
Casting Out Satan and Your Religious Upbringing By Aaron Gilbreath How one woman struggled to make sense of the exorcisms she witnessed as a child.