Here are five stories about the sociopolitics of stripping down.
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Naked and Unafraid: A Reading List About Nudity
Here are five stories about the sociopolitics of stripping down.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Thank You, Jon Gnagy: An Appreciation of a Predecessor to Bob Ross
Ned Stuckey-French reflects on the host of Learn to Draw, the “middlebrow” instructional art show he loved as a kid.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Between Mom and Stepmom
Sarah Menkedick reflects on the very different—and complementary—ways in which her mother and her stepmother have nurtured her.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
Doing Her Quiet Thing
Concerned that she’s a “bad victim,” a writer is silent about being raped—until she isn’t.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
My Grandfather’s Fateful Goodbye, Reimagined
Karissa Chen tries to reconstruct the moment her grandfather, at 19, left Shanghai for Taiwan on a supposed vacation—a decision that would alter his life forever.
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It’s in the Stars: A Reading List About Astrology
2015 was rough, and it feels right to start off 2016 on an optimistic, mystical note.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
It’s in the Stars: A Reading List About Astrology
2015 was rough, and it feels right to start off 2016 on an optimistic, mystical note.
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At Guernica, an Excerpt of Annie Liontas’s Debut Novel
That night, the whole village watching, Stavros Stavros finally proved his manhood: on the dance floor. With the pomp of the traditional syrtos that suggested respite before battle, the resting of the soul, he rejected the pappas’s interference, his mother’s control, his father’s weakness. When he felt like showing off, he showed off. During one […]
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Twinless in Twinsburg
Anya Groner examines her experience of being an identical twin through the lens of an annual Twins Day festival she attended without her sister.
