The original reporting, personal essays, columns, and collaborations that were our most-read stories of the year.
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A Woman In Love Is a Woman Alone
On the profound loneliness of female desire in Lisa Taddeo’s “Three Women.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Story
What Happens If I Don’t Like Fiona Apple?
It seems like everyone in the world loves “Fetch the Bolt Cutters.” So why don’t I? On the isolation of disconnection.
Posted inEditor's Pick
I’m On a Pancake-only Breakfast Diet and I Wish I Started This Sooner
“MY NAME IS DREW AND I LOVE PANCAKES.”
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Final Girl, Terrible Place
I was expecting a handy theory. What I found was a way of seeing that would help me decode a script I’d been stuck in for much of my life.
Posted inBooks, Highlight, Science & Nature, Story
‘The Fledglings Are Out!’
“Peering in, I see that last week’s eggs are now chicks. Tiny bright-yellow beaks, mouths opening and closing silently. This is the magic.”
Posted inStory
The Many Decades of Bond
“How has someone who is a borderline rapist, murderer, and potential sociopath, endured through all these decades?”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Love on the Rocks
One young man finds lessons about what queer love is and is not from the marks that strangers carve into rocks and trees, and from the marks his sexual encounters leave on him.
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How Generations of Black Women Artists Are Lost to Institutional Racism
“All of my most cherished conversations on [Kathleen] Collins have been with Black women. My introduction to her came via the work of the first female editor I worked with. Her stunning meditation on both Collins and her daughter opened my eyes to a woman whose late arrival to my canon was one I couldn’t […]
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Learning About Love from Strangers
There are the marks lovers leave on trees and rocks, and the marks lovers leave on each other.
