This week, we’re sharing stories by Ijeoma Oluo, Michael Hall, Erika Hayasaki, Jerry Saltz, and Caren Chesler.
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When to (Not) Have Kids
At a bleak moment in human history, these essays explore the case for not reproducing.
Author John Edgar Wideman on Isolation
The author of more than 20 books confronts personal tragedy and some truths about himself.
Putin’s Rasputin
Journalist Amos Barshad meets with “Putin whisperer” Aleksandr Dugin to try to understand how a shadowy advisor exerts influence.
(MORE) Guided Journalists During the 1970s Media Crisis of Confidence
Before Gawker there was MORE, a scrappy magazine of media criticism that wanted to hold journalists feet to the flames: “It questioned the objectivity that the New York press had long held onto. And it ended up chronicling one of the most eventful and transformative decades in American journalism.”
An Oral History of Detroit Punk Rock
In Detroit’s empty buildings and troubled streets, restless kids squatted, ran punk clubs, pressed their own records, and made their own magazine. They mostly stayed out of trouble.
Women and Pain: A Reading List
“…how do we begin to change the narrative of how women’s pain is perceived, understood, and treated?”
Chasing the Man Who Caught the Storm: An Interview With Brantley Hargrove
“If you’ve had the luck of actually seeing a tornado, man, that’s like nicotine. It gets under your skin.”
Chasing the Man Who Caught the Storm: An Interview With Brantley Hargrove
“If you’ve had the luck of actually seeing a tornado, man, that’s like nicotine. It gets under your skin.”
What Happens Between What Seems Like All the Facts: On Interviewing Artists
Curator Michael Auping on the forty years he spent interviewing artists in their studios.

