The death of popular rapper XXXTentaction raises questions of ethical consumption.
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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, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Science & Nature, Story
The Science of Dreaming
Science journalist Alice Robb on why we need to take our dreams seriously.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Bootlegging Jane’s Addiction
Aaron Gilbreath considers the impact a live Jane’s Addiction recording has had on him, and the effect heroin had on the band’s — and his own — creativity.
Posted inFeature, Sports, Story
The Tale of Boozy Suzy and Her Hammer Fist
Inside the Rise and Fall of the Pillow Fight League
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
‘I Knew It Was Not My Correct Life, Because It Asked Me To Mute My Voice.’
Reema Zaman on deciding she would no longer live to please men, and how women’s self-esteem and self-love is a revolutionary act of dissent.
Posted inFood, Highlight, Quotes
You Don’t Have to Eat It
Kitchen karma comes for Irina Dumitrescu when her young son turns into the picky eater she used to be.
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Turn On, Tune In, Drop by the Office
Emma Hogan reports that in Silicon Valley, microdosing LSD is the new “body-hacking” tool everyone from engineers to CEOs are using to boost productivity and creativity. Interestingly, while apparently everyone is doing it, users are reluctant to have their real names appear in print. Psychedelic secrets, man! Peace out.
Posted inBusiness, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Versage
Following knock-off fashion’s flow from Lagos to Guangzhou (and back again).
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story
How Diderot’s Encyclopedia Challenged the King
The encyclopedists’ plan to catalog knowledge seemed harmless enough. But what they intended was far more subversive: to restructure knowledge itself.
