The only way to protect herself from her father was to erase him from her life, but she survived being his daughter by acting just like he did.
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When Lips Speak for Themselves: A Reading List on Red Lipstick
Red lipstick is more than a cosmetic. In this reading list, Alison Fishburn explores its power.
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Orwell’s Last Neighborhood
While envisioning the darkest of futures and grappling with mortality, the English writer retreated to an idyllic Scottish isle to write Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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On Silence (or, Speak Again)
Elissa Bassist breaks her silence about everything she’s not supposed to talk about and comes out alive.
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Whiteness on the Couch
Clinical psychologist Natasha Stovall looks at the vast spectrum of white people problems, and why we never talk about them in therapy.
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Rewriting A Symphony In Stone
Summer Brennan considers the art and ritual of reinvention in the history of Notre Dame cathedral, and its witness to a Parisian millennium.
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
And They Do Not Stop Until Dusk
I’ve never known what it means to feel Jewish, but I still have a past — I have György Román, who painted dreams and saw nightmares.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Fiction, Story
Will Amazon Finally Kill New York?
A New Yorker reads “Seasonal Associate” in the age of HQ2.
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In the Age of the Psychonauts
Three psycho-spiritual “events” of the 1970s — involving Philip K. Dick, Robert Anton Wilson, and Terence and Dennis McKenna — had a strange synchronicity.
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The Anarchists Who Took the Commuter Train
The Stelton colony, initially associated with the likes of Emma Goldman and Eugene O’Neill, was a radical suburb whose anarchist residents took the commuter train to New York.
