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What ‘Ask Polly’ Columnist Heather Havrilesky Learned About Love as a Video Game

by Sari Botton July 13, 2016October 19, 2022

At The Atlantic, Julie Beck talks to Heather Havrilesky about her new book How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly’s Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life, a collection of her “Ask Polly” advice columns on New York Magazine‘s The Cut blog (originally at The Awl) plus some that haven’t been published before. In a […]

Quotes

We’ll All Float On: An Examination of the Sensory Deprivation Tank

by Emily Perper December 8, 2015October 19, 2022

There are franchises, retreat centers, books and consulting companies, all dedicated to the physical (and sometimes the New Age/metaphysical) benefits of a quick dip in an isolation tank.

Editor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women

Pregnant, then Ruptured

by Joanna Petrone August 18, 2017October 19, 2022

After an emergency operation, Joanna Petrone considers the medical advances and legal protections that allow women to survive ectopic pregnancies.

Nonfiction, Quotes

Jia Tolentino Remembers the Books She Started and the Books She Shelved

by heymarkarms December 28, 2015October 19, 2022

“Editing is a fugue state; the time self-erases.”

Blog Post, Nonfiction

A Simpler Cup of Coffee

by Aaron Gilbreath August 4, 2016October 19, 2022

From backlash to counter-backlash, coffee culture endures in all its glorious fussiness.

Arts & Culture, History, Story

Percy Ross Wants to Give You Money!

by Jacqui Shine July 20, 2017October 12, 2022

He was was a self-made, blue-collar millionaire in Reagan’s America. But when Percy Ross decided to give away his fortune, he made things simple: all you had to do was ask for it.