If the convenience store and Japanese society are so similar, why can Keiko Furukura function in one and not the other?
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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 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, Reading List
Who Is Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch? A Reading List
“Echo of Scalia.” “Originalist.” “Hostile to women’s health care.”
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.”
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 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 inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story, Writing
Derivative Sport: The Journalistic Legacy of David Foster Wallace
Editors and writers discuss the ways David Foster Wallace’s work influenced them and what it was like to work with him.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
The New Face of Military Recruitment
The Army is working to increase the number of enlistments, and eliminate unethical recruiting practices.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Volkswagen and ‘the Normalization of Deviance’
In The Atlantic, Jerry Useem looks at historic precedents in other large organizations such as Johnson & Johnson, Ford and NASA to explore Volkswagen’s expensive mistake and the corporate climate that led to it.
