Author Sorayya Khan on what it means to grow up between two cultures, and on mothering and being mothered in a global world.
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Good Naked vs. Bad Naked
“As marriages go, ours is an infant. Soft-skulled and milk-breathed. We’ve been married for two years, together for five.”
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Fast Times on America’s Slowest Train
A surreal train ride between Chicago and New Orleans proves that Amtrak still has a lot to offer. (Not including speed or the food.)
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I Remember the Bookstore
Jason Guriel | On Browsing | November 2022 | 4,361 words (15 minutes) Let’s browse a bookstore—a Platonic one, a composite. Let’s wander an aisle, running our fingertips across a wall of spines. One spine, thick and black, juts out: the recent NYRB Classics reissue of William Gaddis’s novel The Recognitions. It’s a block of a book, […]
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Best of 2023: All of Our Number Five Story Picks
Each story we chose as our number five piece of the week in 2023, all in one place.
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Who’s Afraid of Lorne Michaels?
Very rarely can we see an entire system reflected in one person. The creator and executive producer of “Saturday Night Live” is such a person.
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Life on Screen: A Reality Television Reading List
Reality TV: Guilty pleasure or public service?
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Guns and Marriage
Simone Gorrindo struggles to make peace with the violence that puts food on her table.
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Ten Outstanding Stories to Read in 2023
Ten hand-picked short stories to kick off your year in reading.
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What Is a Body For?
One desire felt like it would make me more of who I already was, and the other would unmake me entirely.
