When a refugee flees to another country and claims asylum, she is, in effect, petitioning the state to listen to her story.
Search results
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
Making a Pilgrimage Along Prince’s Purple Trail
Traveling around Minneapolis, visiting the locations where Prince used to live.
Posted inNonfiction
How Google Discovered the Value of Surveillance
In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
How to Ruin the Scripps Spelling Bee in Four Letters: E-S-P-N
At the Scripps Spelling Bee, no one asks for whom the bell tolls. It’s glaringly, if painfully obvious.
Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature
Here Be Tigers
If thousands of Australians claim to have seen the Tasmanian Tiger in the wild, then did it really go extinct in 1936?
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
Scarred by a Rubber Doll
“I’ll never go back to dating a real woman again — no matter what happens.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Essays & Criticism, Story
Defeating the Celluloid Axis
The invisible language of film permeates Christian Kracht’s “The Dead,” prose that is neutral and shot through with so much darkness, you occasionally can’t find the light.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Old Dudes On Skateboards
The death of his life-long skateboarding friend prompts Aaron Gilbreath to get back on his board — at 44, with his toddler daughter in tow.
Posted inBusiness, Business & Tech, Commentary, Current Events, Story, Uncategorized
A Stimulus Plan for the Mutual Aid Economy
Policymakers’ neglect of caregiving harms a major force in American labor.
Posted inNonfiction
The Curious Tale of the Salish Sea Feet
To date, 21 disembodied feet have washed up on the shores of Seattle’s Salish Sea. What at first looked like the work of a serial killer turned out to be something even more unsettling: A message from the ocean about who we are.
