Dur e Aziz Amna considers the year in Pakistan when everything changed.
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An MSG Convert Visits the High Church of Umami
If you love the satisfying, deep flavor of many umami-rich foods, you love MSG whether you know it or not. One fellow MSG fan made a pilgrimage to the company responsible for enhancing so much flavor, and enhancing life itself: Ajinomoto outside of Tokyo.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Media, Nonfiction, Story
How the Guardian Went Digital
Remaking itself from a little leftie newspaper to a powerhouse of internet journalism required experimentation, transparency, and embracing uncertainty.
Posted inStory
The Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store
American food supplies are increasingly channeled through a handful of big companies: Amazon, Walmart, FreshDirect, Blue Apron. What do we lose when local supermarkets go under? A lot — and Kevin Kelley wants to stop that.
Posted inBusiness, Business & Tech, Highlight, Quotes, Technology
Nintendo Can Keep a Secret
The untold art of the fairytale comeback, brought to you by Nintendo.
Posted inFeature
Shared Breath
How does receiving a donated organ affect a person’s sense of self? Caitlin Dwyer explores the lives of organ donor recipients and their intimate relationships with donor families.
Posted inNonfiction
Demonology: A Woman’s Right to Fury
In an excerpt from her new book, Darcey Steinke investigates — and debunks — the demonization of anger within the female body.
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The Offending Article
The “War and Postwar: The Prism of the Times” exhibition outside Tokyo shows the way WWII-era photographers collaborated with Japan’s propagandist wartime regime to sculpt the visual perception of Japan. With Japan’s current militant, pro-nuclear government, the exhibit offers an important reminder of artists’ obligations to make work that challenges, rather than perpetuates, the status quo.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Breaking the Family Silence on Alcoholism
Alicia Lutes contemplates her family’s history of addiction, her mother’s failing liver, and the effect it’s all had on her generation.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Why the “Black Grateful Dead” Thrives Outside of Top 40 Radio
For the Undefeated, music writer and essayist Bruce Britt offers a compelling history of soul band Maze.
