After a series of losses, Lillian Slugocki tries to make sense of death — and life in the wake of others’ passing.
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This is How You Say Goodbye
After a series of losses, Lillian Slugocki tries to make sense of death — and life in the wake of others’ passing.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
The ‘Artwashing’ of East Los Angeles
In Boyle Heights, activists are fighting art galleries that represent the first wave of gentrification.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature, Uncategorized
Treating the Insects of the Mind
In STAT, Eric Boodman examines delusional parasitosis, a psychiatric condition neither science nor medicine understand much about.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
How Much is Too Much to Save a Dying Cat?
A series of losses prompts s.e. smith to wonder why, if it’s inevitable, we tend to view death as failure.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
The Cold War and its Fallout
A son approaching middle age looks back on a volatile relationship with his father.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Cold War and its Fallout
A son approaching middle age looks back on a volatile relationship with his father.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
‘Hopely I’ll See You Again’: An Unlikely but Wonderful Love Affair
Noah Cho ruminates on why his blond, all-American mother chose his “barely bilingual” Korean father.
Essay
Between the Wolf in the Tall Grass and the Wolf in the Tall Story “It’s hard to escape the conclusion that the unconscious is laboring under a moral compulsion to educate us.” —Cormac McCarthy, “The Kekulé Problem,” Nautilus, April 20, 2017 I. The Smartest Person in the Room I often say that one of the […]
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El camino al asilo
Las mujeres trans migran para escapar de la violencia y mantenerse con vida. Alice Driver acompañó a una de estas mujeres en su viaje.
