When does fact become fiction? William Deresiewicz on essays, embellishment, and the slippery slope of “truthiness.”
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Wonderful Things: The Kid Creole and the Coconuts Story
Combining island sounds with stylish clothes and an unforgettable stage presence, one of New York City’s most original bands helped influence 1980s pop culture, and they never sacrificed their unclassifiable artistic vision.
Posted inBusiness, Business & Tech, Current Events, Nonfiction, Story
The Prosperity Plea
Paying attention to the Poor People’s Campaign.
Posted inBooks, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Dead Girls: An Interview with Alice Bolin
It’s clear we love the Dead Girl, enough to rehash and reproduce her story, to kill her again and again. But not enough to see a pattern.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
George Washington Lived in an Indian World, But His Biographies Have Erased Native People
Telling Washington’s story without erasing the people and lands that preoccupied him leads to important new questions; like, just how consequential for American history was the first president’s addiction to land speculation?
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
‘For Eight Years Barack Obama Walked on Ice and Never Fell’
Obama was born into a country where laws barring his very conception—let alone his ascendancy to the presidency—had long stood in force. A black president would always be a contradiction for a government that, throughout most of its history, had oppressed black people. The attempt to resolve this contradiction through Obama—a black man with deep […]
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
The Forever Nomad
For an immigrant, losing a home is a given, but Margarita Gokun Silver wonders if never finding one again is also part of the journey.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Forever Nomad
For an immigrant, losing a home is a given, but Margarita Gokun Silver wonders if never finding one again is also part of the journey.
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The Hunt for Planet Nine
What will it take to find the biggest missing object in our solar system?
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Nonfiction, Story
How Does It Feel To Be Unwanted?
And how many times can you start your life all over again from zero? If there’s anyone who knows the answer, it’s Claudia Amaro.
