What one of TV’s longest-running reality shows says about race and our relationship with the police.
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The Problem of Pain
Pain is indeed inherited, but treating it as an affliction need not be handed down from generation to generation.
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How Okinawans Eat
I have long taken an interest in how I might eat myself to old age. I visited the southern Japanese Okinawa islands whose population is said to include the largest proportion of centenarians in the country and met with some of them in what is supposedly the village with the oldest demographic in the world, […]
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.”
Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction
A Simpler Cup of Coffee
From backlash to counter-backlash, coffee culture endures in all its glorious fussiness.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
The Whistleblower in the Family
After her father was arrested for fraud, Pearl Abraham began the the slow, painful process of unraveling her Hasidic family ties.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Restless Ghosts of Baiersdorf
A small German town is haunted by its Jewish legacy and antisemitic past.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
On Learning & Losing Language: A Reading List
Language shapes every facet of our lives—how we communicate, how we act, how we feel.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
Feeling Unsafe at Every Size
Our new president’s predatory attitudes towards women transport Eva Tenuto straight back to a high school teacher’s abuse of power and the relentless criticism of her junior high peers that made her an ideal target.
Posted inBlog Post, Commentary, Nonfiction
Fans, Fiction, and Representation: A New Hope
This is where we are, in the world of fans, fiction, and representation: making progress and mistakes simultaneously.
