This week, we’re sharing stories from Natalie Kitroeff and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Brendan I. Koerner, Eve Peyser, Darius Miles, and Bill Wyman.
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Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
‘What Would Social Media Be Like As the World Is Ending?’
In Mark Doten’s “Trump Sky Alpha,” a journalist who has survived Trump’s nuclear apocalypse gets an assignment from what’s left of the New York Times Magazine: find out what people were tweeting as the bombs fell.
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Under the Influence: Deeper Than Beauty
Influencers who break type, like Mina Gerges or Jakiya Brown, have more than just an image. They have a story — and a plan.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Movie Assassin
This personal essay by Sarah Miller has gone viral and divided Twitter. Those who love the piece — about Miller’s struggle in 1996 to get away with panning “The English Patient” for an alt weekly paper — appreciate her brutal honesty and her irreverence toward the Serious Film establishment.
Posted inCurrent Events, History, Quotes
‘Salvini’s Decree’ Evicts Italian Migrants from Temporary Shelter
Italy’s “Salvini Decree,” passed last November, has already altered life for many migrants to the country.
Posted inReading List
Swipe Right: A Reading List about Online Dating
Jacqueline Alnes shares her own dating app experiences and nine stories about the pitfalls of finding a partner online.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
Carly Rae Jepsen’s Exhilarating, Emotionally Intelligent Pop Music
Although music often involves emotional expression, pop star Carly Rae Jepsen has built a career and a persona out of big, unguarded emotions, a range that could be called “too muchness,” which is just right for some of us.
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Fashions Fade, But Fleabag Is Forever
The jumpsuit is great, but it won’t get you a hot priest or a BAFTA — you’re not Fleabag (or Phoebe Waller-Bridge).
Posted inBlog Post, Commentary, Current Events, Nonfiction
Is 2018 the Year We Step Away From Social Media?
Spending long periods of time reading people argue with one another on the internet can be wearying. So why do we do it?
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
From Kyiv to Kentucky
California native Katya Cengel contemplates whether living in Ukraine prepared her for life in the South.
