Political cartoons don’t make a huge chunk of change, but they do change the culture. If only that were as valuable to the media as money.
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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
The Bread Thread
Emily Weitzman condemns the persistence of slut shaming over different stages in her life, and combats it with humor and…bread.
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 inArts & Culture, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Story
Funk Lessons in Sonic Solitude
“Joi’s recorded performances embodied all the funkiness my little soul had been waiting for.”
Posted inStory
None of the President’s Men
Journalism now is a lot more fear and insecurity and a lot less corduroy and Robert Redford, but you’d never know it from what is projected.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
At Mrs. Balbir’s
Jillian Dunham traveled thousands of miles from home to get away from her grief. It found her anyway, in a stranger’s Bangkok apartment.
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California Burning
A year after the Camp Fire, Tessa Love contemplates home, California’s undoing, and what it means to belong.
Posted inStory
After a Fashion
Trying so hard to set trends for the future, fashion’s institutions can’t stop stumbling over the past (and the present).
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American Green
How did the plain green lawn become the central landscaping feature in America, and what is the ecological cost?
