In Tudor England’s big-sleeved game of thrones, winning and dying were not mutually exclusive.
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Greens
“’I’m good,’ I told him. I didn’t tell him I was running eleven miles, playing two hours of ball, and eating eight hundred calories a day.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Story, Unapologetic Women
Grown-Woman Theology
Lessons of race, blackness and power from a self-described nerdy Black girl.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
To Heil, or Not To Heil, When Traveling in the Third Reich
One of the first decisions any tourist had to make when crossing the German border in the mid-1930s was whether or not to “Heil Hitler.”
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
To Tell the Story, These Journalists Became Part of the Story
In two recent books about immigrant families seeking asylum in the U.S., the authors’ attempts to help become part of their subjects’ stories.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Ghost Writer: The Story of Patience Worth, the Posthumous Author
The most remarkable thing about Patience Worth wasn’t that she was dead. It was that all she wanted to do was write books.
Posted inEditor's Pick
‘The Great Shame of Our Profession’
When an adjunct literature instructor from Harvard won a prestigious literary criticism award, he chose to deliver a scathing critique of his discipline as his acceptance speech.
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As a Girl, I Went Through Abstinence Ed. As a Woman, I’m Trying to Understand the Damage Done.
Becca Andrews travels with an abstinence only sex education team — and considers the impact that same education had on her life.
Posted inBlog Post, Science & Nature
What Makes a Disability Undesirable?
Should we try to correct disabilities to help the disabled, or make their existence easier for the abled?
Posted inBusiness, Business & Tech, Science & Nature, Story, Uncategorized
The Menace and the Promise of Autonomous Vehicles
What does it mean to experiment with technology that we know will kill people, even if it could save lives?
