Kimberly Mack recalls the ways in which rock music bonded her with her African American mom, and how those fierce sounds helped them cope with the poverty, violence, and despair both outside and inside their Brooklyn home.
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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Johnny Rotten, My Mom, and Me
Kimberly Mack recalls the ways in which rock music bonded her with her African American mom, and how those fierce sounds helped them cope with the poverty, violence, and despair both outside and inside their Brooklyn home.
Posted inArts & Culture, Reading List
The World of Nora Ephron: A Reading List
Seven stories about the journalist and director, on the 20th anniversary of the release of the film, “You’ve Got Mail.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Unpacking Forty Years of Fandom For a Losing Team
Kevin Sampsell examines his love of football — and a team that’s never won a Super Bowl.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Meet Spitty, the Whippet Who Holds Five World Records
“Science has proven the impossibility of the human brain to register self-pity, or maunder on about the generally sorry state of things, while in the presence of canine bellyflops.”
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
O, Small-Bany! Part 3: Summer
Notes from in between meditation-app alerts.
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story, Travel
A Three-Day Expedition To Walk Across Paris Entirely Underground
Journalist Will Hunt, who made the crossing with a group of urban explorers, recounts being menaced by rainwater and rats — and meeting fellow subterranean wanderers along the way.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Story
Fat Girl Cries Herself to Sleep At Night: An Illustrated Essay
Living in a body can be hysterically complicated.
Posted inCulture, Nonfiction, Story
Land Not Theirs
Reckoning with a religious upbringing means confronting religion’s role in oppressing women and people of color.
Posted inBlog Post, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
Why We March: ‘A Love of Self and Each Other,’ an ‘Act of Survival’
Women’s Marches around the world brought out more than one million protesters.
