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Arts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction

Taking Up Smoking at the End of the World

by John Sherman September 15, 2017October 19, 2022

In his late twenties, John Sherman finds a new fondness for cigarettes, despite everything he was ever taught about them.

Nonfiction

Queens of Infamy: Joanna of Naples

by Anne Thériault July 3, 2018October 18, 2022

If you thought four (mostly) crappy husbands, vengeful Hungarian cousins, and the Black Death could cramp this queen’s style, think again.

California V. Trump: The Fight Begins for Health Care, Immigration and the Future of America

by Aaron Gilbreath January 23, 2017October 19, 2022

Many Californians reject Trump’s values, policy and thinking about climate change, immigration and equality, and they are sending a clear message: they will resist. With the sixth largest economy in the world that contributes billions to the federal budget and huge amounts of America’s domestic food supply, California wields a lot of power and offers […]

Nonfiction, Quotes

I’d Gladly Pay You Tomorrow For a Hamburger Today, If Only My Debit Card Weren’t Frozen

by michelleweber March 16, 2017May 13, 2024

Ubiquitous digital payments: harbinger of a glorious future, or smokescreen for powerful interests that want to control (and undermine) choice and capitalism?

1999 Was The Last Time Everything Was Fine

by Sari Botton January 6, 2017October 19, 2022

A personal essay nostalgically looking back at 1999, a buoyant time for the economy and publishing–before the bursting of the dot com bubble, a stock market crash, and the plane crash that killed John F. Kennedy Jr., Carolyn Bessett Kennedy, and her sister.