The Biblical Rheology of Deep-Dish Pizza
A visit to Illinois—home to snow, slaughterhouse romance, and a fraught geology masquerading as pizza—courtesy of Matthew Gavin Frank’s brilliant new book, The Mad Feast.
On Pandering
“I wrote Battleborn for white men, toward them. If you hold the book to a certain light, you’ll see it as an exercise in self-hazing, a product of working-class madness, the female strain. So, natural then that Battleborn was well-received by the white male lit establishment: it was written for them.” Claire Vaye Watkins, in Tin House.
Who Gets a Public Defender?
In St. Louis, Missouri—where someone can qualify for food stamps but not a public defender—hundreds of the city’s poorest are left without a lawyer.
An Ode to du Maurier’s ‘Rebecca,’ by Rachel Pastan
“Sometimes a book that is wonderful and well-told and riveting is overlooked. I believe this is the case with Rachel Pastan’s Alena.”
Celebrating the Trans Community: A Reading List
Every story is, of course, different, though the American media prizes a certain, clean-cut narrative of triumph over adversity. Trans is an umbrella term; it encompasses a variety of gender identities, a million stories.
Theological Scars
On losing faith in God at divinity school.
Forensic Pseudoscience
Are we fundamentally overestimating the scientific soundness of our forensic methods?
Hockey’s Puppy Mill
Is Canadian junior hockey a pure, amateur version of the sport, or a for-profit industry built on the unpaid labor of teens? An upcoming lawsuit may decide.
“Why Him, Why Me?”
A tragic collision on a football field connects a high school linebacker with a former college running back, who experienced a similar tragedy 26 years prior.
The Anti-Immigration Activist Who Set The Stage For Donald Trump
Years before Donald Trump made aggressive anti-immigration rhetoric a centerpiece of his campaign, Maria Espinoza pioneered the political strategy of using the stories of families of Americans killed by undocumented immigrants to argue for restrictions on immigration.
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