But What Will Your Parents Think?
In this personal essay, This Will Be My Undoing author Morgan Jerkins tackles the time-worn question of how far is too far to go in revealing yourself in first-person writing.
I Found My Dream Apartment — and then Adopted a Difficult Dog
A personal essay in which writer Jason Diamond reflects on the early, difficult days with his anxious dog, Max, and realizes how much they were, and are alike.
The Promise of Vaping and the Rise of Juul
Nicotine vape devices were originally perceived as ways to help adults quit smoking actual cigarettes. Instead, American teens have embraced nicotine-delivery technology with a ferocity that has parents, pediatricians, and public schools scrambling for solutions.
A Remarkable Child
Daniel Rafinejad wonders if he and his best friend have run out of stories to tell one another.
He Was One of Millions of Chinese Seniors Growing Old Alone. So He put Himself up for Adoption.
How an 85-year-old Chinese man — desperate for human interaction — put himself up for adoption by taping a note to a bus shelter in his neighborhood.
Lou Reed, Poet: A New Book Sheds Light on the Late Icon’s Literary Side
Before he gave himself to rock and roll, the Velvet Underground frontman was a college poet who studied journalism and cofounded a literary magazine named for an Ornette Coleman song. After the Velvets disbanded, Reed briefly left music for literature once again.
“It’s Just a Beer”
Too frequently, unfamiliar men’s gifts come with the expectation of physical intimacy and the threat of violence. For many women, this transactional dynamic has ruined the promise of platonic male-female relationships.
Michael Chabon: Are Kids the Enemy of Writing?
Four-time father Michael Chabon reconciles ignoring the advice of a great, un-named Southern writer who told him that having children would diminish his writerly productivity.
O, Small-bany!
Writer Elisa Albert’s notes from a bygone spring in her adopted hometown.
Keeping the Faith
Hundreds of Catholic women priests are quietly leading their own progressive parishes — despite denouncements from the Vatican.
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