Dur e Aziz Amna considers the year in Pakistan when everything changed.
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Records on Bone
One young Ukrainian-American struggles to piece together a clear portrait of her parents’ difficult Soviet past, once they quit erasing, and began embracing, their legacy.
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Carrying Histories of Protest
Jaquira Díaz witnesses her father’s rebellious fight for a better life, and her homeland’s fight for its place in the world.
Posted inCulture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
The Castration Heard Around the World
Lorena and John Wayne Bobbit’s famous castration story remains relevant twenty-five years after the incident, and just as painful.
Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature
It was Mr. Henthorn on the Cliff with a Swift Shove
Oh, your first wife died in a freak accident too?
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
The Disease of Deceit
Friends don’t let friends lie about having cancer.
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Seedy
Elizabeth Logan Harris recalls an incident in ’70s-era Radio City Music Hall when unwanted attention to her teenage body put her in league with her father.
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“I wanted to be someone else”: A Reading List about Con Artists, Grifters, and Imposters
Jacqueline Alnes brings us eight stories about those who live to deceive.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Keeping My Promise to Popo
As Anne Liu Kellor says goodbye to her Chinese grandmother in the hospital, she taps into buried memories and family trauma.
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It Comes in Waves
Years after her cousin was killed, Lilly Dancyger is haunted by images of murdered women in the news.
