In adopting outerwear worn by the men who came before him, Aram Mrjoian considers his childhood misperceptions of traditional masculinity.
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Bracing for the Silence of an Empty Nest
As her son finishes high school and prepares to leave for college, Michelle Cruz Gonzales looks back on his early years as a pianist and anticipates a future without the sound of his playing filling the house.
Posted inStory
After a Fashion
Trying so hard to set trends for the future, fashion’s institutions can’t stop stumbling over the past (and the present).
Posted inFeature, Story
The Reluctant Propagandist
Massood Sanjer, Afghanistan’s most famous radio host, had an unlikely start to his career as a beacon of free speech. Under the Taliban rule, his voice used to carry Taliban propaganda all over the world.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Whole 60
The Laura Lippman plan requires that you eat whatever you want whenever you want to eat it, and declare yourself beautiful. We’re not going to lie — it’s really hard.
Posted inStory
‘What Is Missing Is Her Soul’: Women and Art, Girls and Men
In a new book, Camille Laurens examines the life of the model for Degas’ masterpiece, “Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen.” But there’s still so much we don’t know.
Posted inStory
“I Miss My Body When It Was Ferocious”: The Transfiguration of Paul Curreri
For years, singer-songwriter Paul Curreri was a shouter of singular beauty. Then he went quiet — slowly, at first, then all of a sudden.
Posted inNonfiction
If You Should Find Yourself in the Dark
Debbie Weingarten considers the anxieties of mothering and being human in a volatile world.
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Remembering Scott Walker
When the pop singer went avant garde, he traded narrative meaning for emotional truth to explore those things that lay beyond language.
Posted inArts & Culture, Science & Nature, Story
Critics: Endgame
If there’s no earth, there’s no art. How do you engage in cultural criticism at the end of the world?
