The Celebrity Jesuit Connecting With LGBTQ Catholics By Em Perper Father James Martin wants to change the relationship between the queer Catholic community and the Church.
Finding Her True Self: Queer and Muslim By Aaron Gilbreath A Muslim international student came to New York City, and soon embraced her sexuality and all the cultural challenges it would create.
The St. Louis Suburbs Bear the Cost of America’s Nuclear Past By Danielle Jackson After toxic waste from the Manhattan Project was illegally dumped in 1974, rare illnesses have effected the local population.
Now Airbnb is Wrecking Mountain Towns, Too By Pam Mandel Short-term rentals are affecting the character of places like Bozeman, Boise, and Crested Butte.
Men Explain Sylvia Plath’s Suffering to Us By Sari Botton Emily Van Duyne wonders why Sylvia Plath’s accounts of Ted Hughes’s violence toward her have been so frequently dismissed or minimized.
The Making of ‘Meatballs’: Is Bill Murray Even Going to Show Up? By Aaron Gilbreath The 1979 summer camp comedy was Bill Murray’s breakout film. It also almost didn’t happen.
The Resilience of a Middle Distance Runner By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Gabriele Grunewald’s rare cancer has returned, but the athlete keeps fighting.
Talking with Multi-Genre Writer Walter Mosley By Aaron Gilbreath The author talks with The Paris Review about writing, crime fiction, and his depiction of Black American life.
Manspreading Writ Large: Rebecca Solnit on Space By Michelle Weber In Harper’s, Solnit considers who has access to what spaces, and with what limitations?
The Re-Kazakhification of Kazakhstan, On Horseback By Michelle Weber After years of Soviet control, the country looks to the cultural foundations of its nomadic past.
Deporting Billions of Tax Dollars, Farm Work, Good People, and Affordable Food Right Out of America By Aaron Gilbreath TheHudson Valley offers a glimpse of the ways deportations will effect America’s farm economy and food system.
Unsportsmanlike Conduct! The Cathartic (and Expensive) Act of Racket Abuse By Mike Dang In tennis, smashing a racket can be an easy way to vent your frustrations, but it also comes with consequences.
The Kids Are Not Alright: How Opioids are Destroying American Families By Krista Stevens As mom and dad nod out and overdose, the under-funded American foster care system is struggling to mind the children.
#FrenchGirlGoals: Artful Dishevelment and Animal Fats By Michelle Weber There’s big money for fashion and beauty companies in encouraging the women of the world to emulate the French Girl.
You’re Not Really Going to Move to Toronto By Michelle Weber You can probably stop browsing those real estate listings.
New York in the 1970s Gave Us Hip Hop, Madonna, and the Chip on Trump’s Shoulder By Ben Huberman “You bang your head against the wall to try to get some nice buildings up, and what happens? Everybody comes after you.”
In South Korea, Gentrification Goes Global By Pam Mandel Factory workers and artists struggle to keep their work spaces in this Seoul neighborhood.
Nina Simone’s Three Years of Freedom By Danielle Jackson At Guernica, Katherina Grace Thomas turns a lens on the years Nina Simone spent in Liberia in the mid-1970s.
Where Have All the Guitar Heroes Gone? By Pam Mandel Where’s the next generation of guitar heroes? The guitar industry misses you.
Monocle: The Magazine As Boring, Lifestyle, Branding Infastructure By Aaron Gilbreath On Monocle’s tenth anniversary, one writer analyzes the magazine’s vision, business model, and what place this globalist outlet has in an age of increasing nationalism.
Guy Fieri’s Introspective Turn By Ben Huberman Ten years and three presidents, later, Guy Fieri’s populist persona has proven extremely resilient.
These Law Enforcement Officers Wield Handguns and Vet Supplies By Aaron Gilbreath Nevada’s “cow cops” work a unique beat where crimes range from cattle rustling, bovine homicide, and animal abuse.
Kingston’s Little Shop of Horrors By Sari Botton James Lasdun chronicles a murder trial in which his own dentist is the defendant.
Prog Rock: The Musical Genre That Won’t Die By Aaron Gilbreath The “progressive” form of 1970s rock and roll still has as many devoted fans as it does diehard enemies. Why?
The New Age of Anxiety By Aaron Gilbreath W.H. Auden named it 70 years ago, and our latest age of anxiety is one of Xanax, fidget spinners, and constant swiping.
Exile in Guyville By Sari Botton Liz Phair and Elizabeth Wurtzel discuss the sexism they each are seeing everywhere.
How Do You Name a Not-Quite-Fat Ken Doll? By Ben Huberman When a company decides to “celebrate diversity,” who’s the party for?
Reunification Will Have to Bridge the DMZ and Massive Technological Gaps By Michelle Weber Physicians in South Korea are working to understand the health issues North Korean defectors face, in preparation for eventual reunification.
How One Porn Mogul Made His Fortune and Ruined Everything By Aaron Gilbreath Michael Thevis built a lucrative pornography empire in the 1970s only to spend the rest of his life in prison.
Immoral or Merciful? Canadian Doctors Divided on Medically Assisted Death By Krista Stevens Some doctors are struggling with allowing Canadians to die on their own terms.