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I will become power-mad and lock my boyfriend inside forever!

We can all quarantine alone, together, in one big villa in the cloud.

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A selection of 25 successful article-to-film adaptations that made it all the way to the box office.

It has been a dozen days since the shocking death of the Los Angeles Lakers star. How do we talk about Kobe and his legacy on and off the court?

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We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in essays. Jennifer Baker Publishing professional, contributing editor to Electric Literature, creator/host of the Minorities in Publishing podcast, editor of Everyday People: The Color of Life—A Short Story Anthology. Lesson Plan: This Is […]

Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.

Bert’s Market was a grocery store in my hometown of central Florida that I remember for three reasons: It was always freezing, the place reeked because they butchered their meat on site, and it’s where I learned where the meat we ate came from. One day, my sisters and I were with our dad at […]

Jacqueline Alnes explores identity and privilege in these six stories about moving house.

Workaholics burn the midnight oil, while the rich and powerful fail up.

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Are you happy and well-rested, or did you just find a great new snail collagen sheet mask?

Jacqueline Alnes shares her own dating app experiences and nine stories about the pitfalls of finding a partner online.

Alison Fishburn shares seven longreads on how humans experience the death of their pets.

Jacqueline Alnes considers the wealth, privilege, racism, and violence inherent in our relationships with U.S. National Parks.

A reading list on alcoholism, for both the hopeful and the cynical.

“How does pervasive ableism affect the way our society continues to be architected?”

Either Martin Mull or Frank Zappa or Elvis Costello once said writing about music is as pointless as dancing about architecture. Which doesn’t account for how I’ve danced to all these books.