The Jumpsuit That Will Replace All Clothes Forever
Heather Radke writes about JUMPSUIT, a political art project by The Rational Dress Society’s Abigail Glaum-Lathbury and Maura Brewer. Glaum-Lathbury and Brewer aim to call attention to the ills of late capitalism — and to “make America rational again” — by manufacturing non-gendered, nearly shapeless jumpsuits, and encouraging people to wear them to the exclusion of all other fashion choices. Radke spends three weeks in one, and finds a surprising freedom in this particular fashion — or, anti-fashion — dictum.
Midwestern Gothic
When the author’s high school friend supposedly dies from accidental drowning, he doubts the official story, but his academic mind soon leads him down a dark path, and through an examination of conspiratorial thought itself.
Seeking a Roadmap for the New American Middle Class
Could Starbucks be the new GM? Or could the American worker make it even better?
Death Rattle: The Body’s Betrayals
In this moving lyric essay on grief, pain, and the body’s frailty, Ellen Wayland-Smith recalls, with heart-wrenching intimacy, how bodies have failed and fallen in her own life, and reflects on various literary and historical reckonings with the finality of death and the inevitability of the fall.
Taming the Mighty Mississippi
The Mississippi is the second longest river in the United States. Unfortunately, the aging levees, locks and dams that make life and industry possible have degenerated, and no one seems able to initiate improvements.
‘Forgive Yourself. And Forgive Me.’
A personal essay in which reporter Alice Driver considers what lessons to take from a late uncle’s life.
Let’s Talk About Guns and Video Games
In his introduction to a weeklong series on the relationship between games and guns, Waypoint Editor-in-Chief Austin Walker outlines the need to reflect on how violence in games often transforms from an act into something else, a mode of being, and the need to reflect empathetically and critically on that transformation.
Courage Before the Thaw
From toxic shellfish to melting permafrost, Alaska is suffering the effects of climate change so profoundly that no Alaskan remains unaffected, be they scientists or Indigenous subsistence hunters. Here’s how six women are dealing with these changes.
Outside Voices
After never knowing a moment’s privacy, Sloane Crosley finally moves into the one-bedroom apartment of her dreams in the city that never sleeps. And then she never sleeps again, because all of her windows face Jared.
The Friend That Got Away
A personal essay in which Beverly Donofrio looks back on a friendship she hadn’t expected to make — or to lose.
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