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#Vanlife: Selling Their Staged World, One Social Media Post at A Time
Is the social media movement a form of free-spirited nomadism, or a clever selling of the soul to brands?
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Writing
‘As a Grown Woman, I Still Have To Continuously Learn To Say No’
Memoirist Tanya Marquardt talks about consent, trauma, and investigating our memories in the age of #MeToo.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Confessions of a Watch Geek
A reported personal essay by Gary Shteyngart. The Russian-born novelist and memoirist confesses to an obsession with expensive mechanical watches, which intensified through the 2016 Presidential race. He quells his growing anxiety by taking tours of German watchmaking facilities, and comparing rarefied ticking treasures with other watch geeks.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Reclusive Hedge Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency
How Robert Mercer exploited America’s populist insurgency.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
Climate Change and Social Disorder in Central Africa
As climate change dries Central Africa’s massive Lake Chad, extremists and militant governments distrupt the lives of the tribes who once made their life here.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Memoirs of Addiction and Ambition
Cat Marnell’s new memoir How to Murder Your Life, like Julia Phillips’ famous You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, is an extreme spectacle of women in capitalism.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Science & Nature
Duet for a Small Porpoise’s Extinction
Kimi Eisele contemplates coherence, the near extinction of the vaquita, and the expensive bycatch of being human.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
Duet for a Small Porpoise’s Extinction
Kimi Eisele contemplates coherence, the near extinction of the vaquita, and the expensive bycatch of being human.
Posted inReading List
We All Die In the End, But Our Skin Looks Great: A Reading List
Are you happy and well-rested, or did you just find a great new snail collagen sheet mask?
