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Posted inNonfiction
Finding My Father
At age thirty-two, after years working as an exotic dancer, the daughter of a mysteriously absentee father finally puts together the pieces that had been missing her whole life.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
The God Phone
What happens when ordinary people play God to strangers? Leora Smith explores the history of one of the oldest art installations at Burning Man and the conversations that unfold there.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Story
American Dirt: A Bridge to Nowhere
“Jeanine Cummins can write about Mexico — but she will be judged on whether her writing actually captures the experiential and emotional and ethical complexity of that place, and she will be judged with extra care because she is an outsider.”
Posted inNonfiction
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 inNonfiction
‘We Live in an Atmosphere of General Inexorability’: An Interview with Jia Tolentino
Jia Tolentino talks about what kinds of personalities thrive online, why she is suspicious of her own self-narrative, and the pervading sense that everything’s spiraling out of control.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
It’s Time to Stop Painting Joyce Maynard as an ‘Oversharer’ Already
In the #metoo era, there’s no excuse for continuing to deride women like Maynard who speak out about their experiences with men who had much more power.
Posted inEditor's Pick
After the Miracle
The Bangalore-based tech company called Infosys employs more people than Facebook and Google combined. It builds and maintains software for large American companies, and it helped build India’s IT industry. Now that industry is bracing for not only massive layoffs, but what the author calls the end of “India’s dominance of IT services”.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Can This Tech Company’s Digital Border Wall Secure it More Government Defense Contracts?
Looking inside the new tech company who is building a cost-effective digital wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?
In a little more than a decade, Facebook has become one of the most important technology companies in the world. But as it’s grown, the company has had to try to figure out how to govern its 2 billion users, something it hasn’t quite managed. In light of that, Max Read grapples with an increasingly […]
