After she proposes to her girlfriend, Amy Deneson rethinks what it means to wed.
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Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Magen David and Me
After facing persecution in the former Soviet Union and a new wave of antisemitism in the United States, Marya Zilberberg decides to put her Jewishness on display.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Magen David and Me
After facing persecution in the former Soviet Union and a new wave of antisemitism in the United States, Marya Zilberberg decides to put her Jewishness on display.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story
The Dead End on My Record Shelf
I believed that there was no music existing in the world with an unbroken connection to its original context. I was wrong.
Posted inReading List
Between Life and Death, There’s San Francisco: A Reading List
The Golden Gate Bridge has long embodied the contradictions of the city it overlooks: ambition, connection, innovation, a beginning and an end.
Posted inNonfiction
Orwell’s Last Neighborhood
While envisioning the darkest of futures and grappling with mortality, the English writer retreated to an idyllic Scottish isle to write Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Maybe We’ll Register Your Marriage After You Walk the Bomb-Sniffing Dog
All they really wanted was to live happily ever after.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
How To Build An Intellectual
For one young immigrant, growing up Iranian in New York City meant raising herself.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Story
The Haväng Dolmen
A trip to a Swedish stone-age burial site gives an archaeologist too close a look at death.
