Mira Jacob talks about why she wrote a graphic memoir, and why she is tired of performing her pain in order to help white people understand racism.
Search results
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
The Problem With Nostalgia
Michael Musto argues that wearing rose-colored glasses always leads to an unfair distortion — looking back on the best of the past while comparing it to the worst of the present.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
The Problem With Nostalgia
Michael Musto argues that wearing rose-colored glasses always leads to an unfair distortion — looking back on the best of the past while comparing it to the worst of the present.
Posted inCulture, Quotes
A Woman’s Search for Salvation, Love, and Family
A woman searches for love and belonging inside and outside of the Christian church.
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quotes
My Puppy, Myself
Jason Diamond moves into a new apartment and adopts a dog that begins terrorizing his neighbors.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Feature, profile, Story, Writing
Beautiful Women, Ugly Scenes: On Novelist Nettie Jones and the Madness of ‘Fish Tales’
Edited by Toni Morrison, the 1983 novel ‘Fish Tales’ by Nettie Jones was supposed to set the literary world on fire. It didn’t.
Posted inNonfiction
School for Girls
Years after recovering from anorexia, Jasmin Sandelson writes a letter to the high school friend she idolized, and explores how hunger, love, and envy shaped — and ended — their relationship.
Posted inBooks, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Celebrating a Profound Literary Inheritance: Glory Edim on the Well-Read Black Girl Anthology
Glory Edim talks about editing her new anthology, the push for equity in publishing, and how black women writers have written themselves into spaces that neglect or ignore them.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Science & Nature, Story, Technology
‘Nothing Kept Me Up At Night the Way the Gorgon Stare Did.’
The Gorgon Stare, a military drone-surveillance technology that can track multiple moving targets at once, is coming to a city near you.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
The Secrets We Keep
Deena ElGenaidi takes stock of the truths she and her Muslim family members hide from one another.
