The Father I Did Not Know
Interspersed with memories of his childhood in Africa, Bart Moore-Gilbert searches for information about his deceased father’s secretive past as a police officer in colonial India. This essay is excerpted from The Setting Sun: A Memoir of Empire and Family Secrets.
Why the Press Is Wrong About Bernie Sanders
Steve Hendricks looks at why the press loves to hate underdogs, and how their treatment of Bernie Sanders belies the fact that he just might have a shot.
Can Racism Be Stopped in the Third Grade?
A controversial experiment at Fieldston Lower School to open up a discussion about race by sorting students into racial groups has divided a group of liberal parents.
By Reason of Insanity
The high-profile murder trial that led to America’s first successful insanity plea: It involved a congressman who shot a man he believed was having an affair with his wife.
Diane Arbus, Uncropped: A Reading List
Diane Arbus was renowned for photographing people on the margins, such as the mentally challenged, dwarves, giants, sideshow performers, crossdressers, and transsexuals. Was she merely a privileged voyeur of the vulnerable or an unsung champion of sexual and societal minorities? Here are five stories that will help you cut through the controversy.
How Indie Rock Changed the World
The story of indie rock music and its influence on culture.
O. Henry Prize Winners: The Best Short Stories of 2015
A new collection of stories awarded the 2015 O. Henry Prize.
Unclimbable
Eva Holland explores what it means to comprehend and embrace your limits —to know yet avoid the precipice between courage and humility—on a climbing expedition to the Yukon Territories’ famed Cirque of the Unclimbables.
Tuesdays with Zinsser
Mark Singer remembers his former teacher, On Writing Well author William Zinsser, who died May 12.
Memories of a Singular San Francisco Girlhood
Alysia Abbott recalls being raised by her poet father—a single, openly gay man—in the San Francisco of the nineteen-seventies and eighties in this excerpt from Fairyland, a Memoir of My Father.
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