From Elisa Albert’s acclaimed 2006 collection, the infamous short story that turned Philip Roth’s playbook inside out.
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I’m Writing You from Tehran
A French-Iranian journalist writes a letter to her grandfather about the ten years she spent in Iran, trying to make sense of her identity and a country living very different public and private lives.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Can Molly Save a Marriage?
An excerpt from A Really Good Day, Ayelet Waldman’s memoir on experimenting with microdoses of LSD to treat a mood disorder.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Dress You Up in My Love
Doree Shafrir reflects on how Halloween changed for her after struggling with infertility.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Eight Things You Need to Know About Me and the Beach
A white woman came up to my mother, leaned in close and said, “We whites have to stick together against the Asian invasion.” My mother was ecstatic. “She liked me! They like me here!”
Posted inNonfiction, Story
The Organ Transplant Story You Don’t Hear
Ten years ago, James “Bo” Calvert received a transplant to replace his only kidney. Now that kidney is failing.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Ten Translations of Care
Mary Wang recalls the ways in which she and her family in China conspired to hide her grandmother’s cancer diagnosis from her.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Ten Translations of Care
Mary Wang recalls the ways in which she and her family in China conspired to hide her grandmother’s cancer diagnosis from her.
Posted inQuote Posts
Basking in Reciprocated Love: Can Molly Save a Marriage?
At Lenny, read an excerpt of Ayelet Waldman’s memoir of LSD microdosing, A Really Good Day.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Story, Unapologetic Women
Grown-Woman Theology
Lessons of race, blackness and power from a self-described nerdy Black girl.
