Family dynasties are neither new nor newly influential in pop.
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Shared Breath
How does receiving a donated organ affect a person’s sense of self? Caitlin Dwyer explores the lives of organ donor recipients and their intimate relationships with donor families.
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Story
Death Proof
With ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,’ Quentin Tarantino slakes his thirst for nostalgia while he plays god with another piece of history.
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes, Science & Nature
Dog Cloning: Controversial and Downright Creepy
A clone is not a clone, it’s a twin born at a different time — one that is only ever about 85 percent the same as the original.
Posted inEditor's Pick
What Are You?
A personal essay in which Valerie Vande Panne writes about learning why she never quite passed as white growing up, despite allegedly being the product of two caucasian parents. She recalls being questioned all her life about her racial and cultural identity; finally learning through a DNA test that her father wasn’t who she thought […]
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It Comes in Waves
Years after her cousin was killed, Lilly Dancyger is haunted by images of murdered women in the news.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Reading List, Story, Uncategorized
Pages You Can Dance To: A Book List
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.
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The Danger of Desire
Faylita Hicks considers what it means to be a Black nonbinary activist in the age of Trump — and questions how the social justice movement has changed the way they have sex.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
What He Left Behind
Kira Martin struggles through her connection – both emotional and physical – with her troubled and destructive son.
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Every Parent Wants to Protect Their Child. I Never Got the Chance.
In a heartbreaking reported essay, Jen Gann writes about raising a son who suffers from incurable cystic fibrosis that will likely lead to his early death, the midwife practice that neglected to warn her that she and her husband were carriers, and the likelihood that she and her husband would have chosen to terminate the […]
