As a teen, Laura Bond went all out to meet Depeche Mode — and to hang onto her best friend.
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Sight and Insight
After a childhood filled with intrusive medical interventions for misaligned eyes, Liane Kupferberg Carter wrestles with learning to see herself and others clearly.
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Queens of Infamy: Lucrezia Borgia
History may have pigeonholed her as Renaissance Italy’s most notorious seductress, but it’s high time we give the Duchess of Ferrara a closer look.
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Does the Woman in the Painting Have a Secret?
In the wake of her mother’s passing, Dylan Landis wrestles with unanswered questions about love and art, and imagines different possibilities of what could have been.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
We Have Always Lived in the House
In the face of tragic loss, Victoria Comella searches for the home she left behind, only to find it seventeen years later in the last place she expected.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
We Have Always Lived in the House
In the face of tragic loss, Victoria Comella searches for the home she left behind, only to find it seventeen years later in the last place she expected.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Bonding with My ‘In-Law’ Over Bikini Wax
When her 13-year-old daughter finds love a stone’s throw away, Lisa A. Phillips confronts the inevitability of first heartbreak.
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In Search of Etty Hillesum
The work of a young Jewish diarist, writing in Amsterdam around the time Anne Frank began her famous diary, shows the transformation of pain into radical altruism.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Story
Funk Lessons in Sonic Solitude
“Joi’s recorded performances embodied all the funkiness my little soul had been waiting for.”
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Nonfiction
An Urban Planner Against the Developer Presidency
An urban planner examines the worldview of high-stakes commercial real estate developers, with a special focus on our new developer-in-chief.
