Following in the footsteps of African Americans traveling to Denmark in the early 20th century, Ethelene Whitmire experiences a 21st century transatlantic crossing.
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Live Through This: Courtney Love at 55
Lisa Whittington-Hill on why Courtney Love deserves to be the girl with the most cake.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
O, Small-Bany! Part 3: Summer
Notes from in between meditation-app alerts.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Reading List, Story, Uncategorized
Pages You Can Dance To: A Book List
Either Martin Mull or Frank Zappa or Elvis Costello once said writing about music is as pointless as dancing about architecture. Which doesn’t account for how I’ve danced to all these books.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature
The Toxic Legacy of Building 606
The San Francisco police officers stationed on the Hunters Point Superfund site worked atop the literal and figurative fallout of the US Military’s WWII-era atomic testing.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Feature, History, Nonfiction, Story
Let Me Show You the World
Almost everything you think you know about Aladdin is wrong.
Posted inNonfiction
I Entered the World’s Longest, Loneliest Horse Race on a Whim, and I Won
Somehow, implausibly, against all the odds, I became the youngest person and first woman ever to win the Mongol Derby. What made me so sure I was ready, when I was totally unprepared?
Posted inNonfiction
Fire Sale: Finance and Fascism in the Amazon Rainforest
From global capital to YouTube, carbon credits to indigenous land defenders in their own words, Will Meyer has compiled a reading list on who lit the match and how the fire might be stopped.
Posted inHighlight, Quotes, Science & Nature
Life Under (Water) Pressure
Welcome to the dangerous, cramped world of the saturation diver, and the extraordinary strangeness of working 500 feet under the sea.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Confessions of a Lapsed Catholic Dancer
Kate Branca considers the body as an instrument of faith.
