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Posted inEditor's Pick
Ray Spencer Didn’t Molest His Kids. So Why Did He Spend 20 Years in Prison for It?
Ray Spencer spent nearly half his life in prison, convicted of raping his own children. It’s a crime he doesn’t remember committing, and as adults, his grown children began questioning their own memories and set out to find justice for their father.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Love’s Road Home
A wedding day postscript to Chivers’ Pulitzer winning story about Sam Siatta, a Marine Corps veteran of the war in Afghanistan who returned home with PTSD and landed in prison after committing a crime he says he doesn’t remember.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Falling for My Booty Call
Sarah Kasbeer reflects on a history of hookups — and why they left her cold.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Story
A Vor Never Sleeps
The shadowy world of Russian organized crime in America.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
When Zora and Langston Took a Road Trip
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston gave Langston Hughes a lift to Tuskegee in her Nash coupe, nicknamed “Sassy Susie.” It was one of most fortuitous hangouts in literary history.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
How To Hide An Empire
Daniel Immerwahr says studying the history of the Greater United States opens our eyes to how “racism has shaped the actual country itself. The legal borders of the country, but also the borders of the heart.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
My Father Spent 30 Years In Prison. Now He’s Out.
A touching personal essay in which writer Ashley Ford reveals that she and her father are happily rebuilding their relationship now that he has been released from prison after 30 years. Slowly they are getting to know each other in ways they never before had. One of the more challenging aspects: bringing him up to […]
Posted inBooks, Sports, Story
Ancestor Work In Street Basketball
The basketball court is a place where young black men feel comfortable mourning death, but are there crucial elements missing from their grieving practices?
Posted inNonfiction
The Brazilian Healer and the Patron Saint of Impossible Causes
Leigh Hopkins faces the hidden truth about the world’s most famous spiritual surgeon and the irresistible desire to find ‘the cure.’
