Harmony Holiday remembers her mother’s years of trauma-bonding in search of new love, after the death of her mercurial yet brilliant father.
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On Junot Díaz’s ‘The Silence’ and Our Uncomfortable Reckoning
The aftermath of trauma sometimes means that victims become victimizers, but we have to find a way to talk about it.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes
How One Porn Mogul Made His Fortune and Ruined Everything
Michael Thevis built a lucrative pornography empire in the 1970s only to spend the rest of his life in prison.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Irvine Welsh on Brexit, Existential Panic, and His Latest ‘Trainspotting’ Sequel
“The books from ‘Trainspotting’ onwards have been about deindustrialization … the cruel existential panic that we feel, in the sense that we don’t really know what we’re here for anymore.”
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Reading List
The 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners
This year’s Pulitzer winners include Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, investigative reporting from The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the New Yorker, music from Kendrick Lamar, and more.
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Took You By Surprise: John and Paul’s Lost Reunion
Five years after the Beatles disbanded, a period fueled by intense acrimony, Lennon and McCartney set aside their differences and got back together one more time. Inside the rollicking atmosphere of that May 1974 recording session.
Posted inNonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Sometimes the Story Finds You: An Interview With Rachel Monroe
The 20th anniversary of the Amber Alert sent the writer on a two-year journey to cover a murder in the Navajo Nation.
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What a Fraternity Hazing Death Revealed About the Painful Search for an Asian-American Identity
Jay Caspian Kang reports on the death of Michael Deng, a college freshman who died while rushing an Asian-American fraternity, and examines the history of oppression against Asians in the U.S. and how it has shaped a marginalized identity.
Posted inArts & Culture, Crime, Nonfiction, Quotes, Uncategorized
Welcome Nowhere: The Plight of the Rohingya Refugees
Myanmar’s Rohingya people escape systematic discrimination at home only to suffer depredations in search of new homes.
Posted inArts & Culture, History, Science & Nature, Story
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Mirrors
Mirrors are sparkly and shiny and hypnotic. They’ve fascinated us for thousands of years. And they might show us a lot more about our society’s misplaced priorities than we care to see.
