Appropriate for a Seven-Year-Old Child
Marlo Mack’s podcast How To Be a Girl is a sensitive and honest exploration of the joys, fears, and struggles of raising of a transgender child.
Valerie Bozeman Is Pardoned by Obama as America Wrestles With Fallout From the War on Drugs
Caught up in a cycle of drug use and abuse when she was sentenced to life in prison, Valerie Bozeman was no kingpin; she was just a woman struggling with addiction, dealing to further her own habit. President Obama commuted Valerie’s sentence in May, and she was free to go after serving twenty-three years. Since then, she has been struggling to adjust to life on the outside, and to understand the no-mercy laws that put her in prison in the first place.
Blank Space: What Kind of Genius Is Max Martin?
From “… Baby One More Time” to “Can’t Feel My Face,” meet the Swedish songwriter responsible for the biggest pop hits of the last 20 years.
A Criminal Mind
How a respected psychiatrist and loving father and husband became an uncaring drug dealer.
The Crossroads of Secular and Spiritual: A Reading List
The following four essays take on saints, proselytization, prayer and coincidence: abstractions that may have great impact on our everyday lives, regardless of faith tradition.
The Great Surrender
A writer makes peace with the natural world after moving to Montana.
Children of the Yuan Percent
Why everyone hates China’s second-generation rich kids.
The Memory Thief
After being diagnosed with a brain tumor in his late twenties, a writer begins to lose his memories before undergoing surgery.
Mrs. Bundy
On the day of Ted Bundy’s execution, a reporter interviews his mother.
Stud: How to Have 106 Babies (and Counting)
Ed Houben is 46 and has fathered 106 children “of whom two-thirds were made the natural way (i.e., by sexual intercourse) and a third made via artificial insemination.” Women and couples come to him because they haven’t been able to have children on their own, and he offers his services to them for free.
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