Essayist Chloe Caldwell on the “sisters” we choose for ourselves, and her close relationship with her surrogate younger sister, Cheryl Strayed’s daughter Bobbi.
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‘Gidget,’ John Hughes, and the Whitewashing of Jewishness in Pop Culture
This whitewashing of Jewishness out of pop culture is an old, old story, and it isn’t specific to camp movies; it’s true of plenty of other Hollywood representations of American teens, too. The Czech Jew who wrote the novel that was the basis for Gidget (1959) was inspired by his own surfing daughter, Kathy Kohner, who went on […]
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Becoming One of the World’s 65 Million Refugees
Majid Hussain keeps having to run.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Story
El Padre de Los Migrantes
“Cuando se trata del cuerpo humano todo puede ser objeto de tráfico. Los migrantes son un producto en un sistema que los separa en partes lucrativas, hasta que muchas veces no queda nada.”
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John Waters on TV, Bad Taste and Going Undercover
Guernica published a new interview with The People’s Pervert just last week,
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How TV Sex Got Real
The idea that the sex we see depicted on television should look or feel anything like what goes on in our own bedrooms is a very recent development. Eliana Dockterman looks at how TV sex got real.
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The Life and Murder of Stella Walsh, Intersex Olympic Champion
Eighty years ago, in Berlin, Stella Walsh won her second Olympic medal. Decades later, Walsh’s murder and subsequent autopsy threw the legacy of track’s first female superstar into turmoil.
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How to Drop Out of a Presidential Race
Matt Larimer’s piece offers an excellent guide for the losers of Iowa and New Hampshire and armchair analysts alike.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Thank You, Jon Gnagy: An Appreciation of a Predecessor to Bob Ross
Ned Stuckey-French reflects on the host of Learn to Draw, the “middlebrow” instructional art show he loved as a kid.
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Five Stories About Espionage
Today’s spying relies on social media, surveillance, coercion and ambition.
