Kavita Das recalls learning to self-advocate as a patient with a cleft palate — and as a child in a family full of doctors.
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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Recovering My Fifth Sense
Kavita Das recalls learning to self-advocate as a patient with a cleft palate — and as a child in a family full of doctors.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Thing about Women from the River Is That Our Currents Are Endless
Given a journal while hospitalized, Terese Marie Mailhot writes her way through generations of trauma.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
We’re Not Done Here
How the MeToo movement became a feminist sexual revolution.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
We’re Not Done Here
How the MeToo movement became a feminist sexual revolution.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
Themed for Success
At Eater, journalist Emily Yoshida hits some of Tokyo’s absurd, popular tourist attractions trying to understand specifically what themed-destinations offer and why they’re so popular.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Bootlegging Jane’s Addiction
Aaron Gilbreath considers the impact a live Jane’s Addiction recording has had on him, and the effect heroin had on the band’s — and his own — creativity.
Posted inFeature, Nonfiction
Why I Hate My Dog
In this lighthearted portrait of his family’s rescue dog, author Richard Gilbert explores the larger bond between human and animal.
Posted inEditor's Pick
I Was Pregnant, and Then I Wasn’t
The aftermath of a miscarriage, immediate and raw: “It was an animal sadness born of the worst kind of disappointed expectation. The future stretched out before us, one torturous minute at a time. The sadness lived in me as an ache in my stomach, and it’s with me still.”
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Handgun and the Haunted Range
Justin Quarry hunted for himself, and a connection to his late father, with the unlikely inheritance of a firearm.
