Here is another fantastic essay from America’s small press. Winner of the 2015 Hrushka Memorial Nonfiction Prize from the Michigan-based journal Passage North, the author spins a complex weave about her life and family, Archimedes and science to explore the ways meaning accrues, the past endures, and emotional memory connects us to the past in […]
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Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Unapologetic Women
The Consent of the (Un)governed
“Freedom” is just another word for being under the thumb of a powerful white man — for now.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature
Oh, Give Me a Home Where the Woolly Mammoths Roam
Ross Andersen’s captivating profile of Nikita Zimov and his quest to re-create a Pleistocene ecosystem is worth reading, not least for a fascinating explanation of how grasses went from being slimy ocean plants to covering huge swaths of the planet.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Men Vying for the Emerald That’s Worth Millions… or Nothing
For her story in Wired, Elizabeth Weil fell down a rabbit hole of conspiracy, arson, faked kidnapping, bankruptcy, and lawsuits that swirls around the 752-pound Bahia Emerald.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Story
Bundyville Chapter Four: The Gospel of Bundy
The Bundys have found momentum in the Trump era. Ryan Bundy is running for governor and politicians are joining the Bundys at public events. They say they’ll do “whatever it takes” to defend their rights.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
‘I Still Live in a Small Town That I Hate’: Roxane Gay’s Perspective on Her Success
This week, a number of people heard of Roxane Gay for the first time when Simon & Schuster canceled its plans to publish controversial alt-right author Milo Yiannopoulos’s book — but her success has been building for a long time.
Posted inBlog Post
What if Free Outdoor Theater is the Greatest Threat to Our Democracy?
Fox News, Bank of America, and Delta are shocked to learn about the Public Theater’s new production of ‘Julius Caesar.’
Posted inArts & Culture, Blog Post, Reading List
Failed Promises: A ‘Bachelorette’ Reading List
This was the year ‘The Bachelorette’ tried to take on race. Things did not go well.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
You Are a Jigsaw Puzzle with Missing Food-Shaped Pieces
Fat, thin, over-eating, under-eating. Lindsay Hunter’s relationship with food, weight, and body image has been consistently complicated.
Posted inCrime, Nonfiction
The Third Life of Richard Miles
Richard Miles spent 15 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. The state of Texas compensated Miles for his wrongful conviction, but life after vindication has come with its own set of challenges.
