Kathleen Drew-Baker died never having set foot in Japan, and never knowing what an impact her research would make. Plus, how to build a lazy bed, how to cook Irish blancmange, and other surprising seaweed stories.
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Posted inBusiness, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes, Travel
Trump Properties As Symbols of American Mediocrity and Lies
The only thing a tourist who stays at Trump properties gets for free is a disturbing vision of America’s future.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Story
A Vor Never Sleeps
The shadowy world of Russian organized crime in America.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Who Is Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch? A Reading List
“Echo of Scalia.” “Originalist.” “Hostile to women’s health care.”
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
How Are There Still Beauty Pageants When Feminists Have Been Protesting Them for 50 Years?
Roxane Gay considers the lasting impact of protests against the Miss America Pageant that took place half a century ago.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Smooth Spaces, Fuzzy Lives
The border of Northern Ireland was one Rachel Andrews thought she could never cross. Then it began to dissolve.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story
Convenience Store Woman
If the convenience store and Japanese society are so similar, why can Keiko Furukura function in one and not the other?
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
On American Identity, the Election, and Family Members Who Support Trump
Nicole Chung reflects on the burden of engaging with racism and educating white people, including some in her own family.
Posted inBooks
Late in Life, Thoreau Became a Serious Darwinist
But he died before he could finish his book on natural history. As Emerson put it, Thoreau “depart[ed] out of Nature before… he has been really shown to his peers for what he is.”
Posted inBooks, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Uncategorized
Why Do Men Fight?: An Interview with Thomas Page McBee
“When I started asking myself questions about my own notions of masculinity. I just felt so limited, so suddenly afraid of becoming the kind of man I’d grown up in fear of.”
