How The Go-Go’s emerged from the Los Angeles punk scene in the late ’70s to become the first and only female band to have a number one album in Beauty and the Beat.
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Return to the Saddle Club: A Reading List on Horse Girls
Celebrating the girls with an equine obsession.
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Imperial Eras: A Taylor Swift Studies Reading List
How Taylor Swift reflects every possible version of ourselves.
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Disneyland of the Dead
London’s Highgate Cemetery shows us just how hard it is to keep the dead buried.
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Bread and Honey
Sometimes, marriage is about learning how to braid the bitter with the sweet.
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Letter from Manhattan 2

On trying to be a “world citizen”—and how expat life rarely delivers on its promises.
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Safety Net
These days, when you work as a librarian in America, there is no lack of emergencies.
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Eight Limes, No More: The Accidental Poetry of Found Lists
A found list is a rare analog window into someone else’s needs—an accidental autobiography, a blank space to be filled with one’s imagination.
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Flying Solo
On self-love and self-acceptance while aging in a disabled body.
