Where the Trouble Started
In this personal essay, decades after a childhood sexual assault, Saidee Sonnenberg tries to make sense of what happened.
The Making of the Fox News White House
Trump’s friends are like family. And Trump hires his family.
In Bad Taste
“Garishly food-styled heads of hollowed-out iceberg packed with pimiento cheese, or baked beans in aspic, bolster our own superior sense of ourselves. Like the Instagram freakshake, they are fantasy transgressions against which we define our superior awesomeness.”
Turning Our Garden’s Bounty Into Community
In this moving installment of her Catapult column Backyard Politics, Christine H. Lee discovers equilibrium in sharing her farm’s bounty and in the beauty of simple, impromptu barter arrangements.
A Journey Into the Radical Art of Brain Injury Survivors
Every week, survivors of brain injuries come to the art studio at Headway East London to draw, sculpt, paint, and create the people they want to be now. Their experiences offer insight into the very nature of creativity.
The Problem With Nostalgia
Michael Musto argues that wearing rose-colored glasses always leads to an unfair distortion — looking back on the best of the past while comparing it to the worst of the present.
Why Esquire’s March Cover is Sort of Dangerous
The news cycle means that Esquire‘s March cover story is already a half-dozen horrors ago, but that was the time needed for Patrick Nathan to produce this smart, searching exploration into the danger of false journalistic neutrality.
The First Dog Ascent of a 7,000-Meter Himalayan Peak
Does your heart require warming? Look no further than Mera, a very, very good dog.
A Swimmer Saved by What She Lost
“Tormented by pain, Morgan Stickney made the agonizing decision to have her lower leg removed. The groundbreaking procedure may change the course of her life, and the future of amputations.”
Finding the Tune
Anton Webern’s Concerto, Opus 24 “would,” in pianist Mark Wallace’s words, “determine the course of my life.” Only years later did he understand why.
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