In between bites of hot dog and sunscreen applications, you can read about police brutality, what the rest of the world thinks about the United States, one woman’s American wardrobe and so much more.
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Posted inEditor's Pick
Gender Studies
[Fiction] While traveling to a conference, a recently dumped gender studies professor views herself in the reflection of her airport shuttle driver.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
Living Differently: How the Feminist Utopia Is Something You Have to Be Doing Now
Lynne Segal points out that if the dystopia is already here, then the utopia must be here too.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Food, Nonfiction, Story
Roast Duck Soup for the Chinese-American Daughter’s Soul
Food writer Su-Jit Lin contemplates the role of a favorite dish in her relationship with her immigrant chef father.
Posted inHistory, Story
Watching a Fall
The allure and shame of watching America’s last public hanging.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Should Fiction Be Timeless?
On the place of pop culture references in literature.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Uncovering Hidden History on the Road to Clanton
Documentary filmmaker Lance Warren interrogates the silence around lynching in the American South.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Writing Our America
“Despite the headlines that came after the election calling this country ‘Trump’s America’—and there were many—I won’t call it that, or see it that way. And regardless of your politics I’ll ask you to join me. This is our America. It’s our America to write in, and our America to write.”
Posted inNonfiction
Walking Through the Past Into New Motherhood
A new mother struggles to make sense of intergenerational trauma, biological memory and the guilty privilege of passing as white even though she is Jewish.
