Jessica Berger Gross reflects on what letting her roots grow in at age 45 has meant, in terms of feminism and resistance.
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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Gone Gray
Jessica Berger Gross reflects on what letting her roots grow in at age 45 has meant, in terms of feminism and resistance.
Posted inNonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes
Talking with Multi-Genre Writer Walter Mosley
The author talks with The Paris Review about writing, crime fiction, and his depiction of Black American life.
Posted inCurrent Events, Essays & Criticism, Story
Maybe We Can Make a Circle
Nicole Piasecki writes a letter to the wife of the shooter who killed her father. Part two of a three-part series on gun violence.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Story
Captive Audience
When you live alongside anything for a long time — any person, any character, any narrative structure, any screen flicker — you become a part of it and it becomes a part of you.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
In Bed-Stuy, the Ghost of Robert Moses is Alive and Well
Gentrification is about displacement — but also about marketing and invisibility.
Posted inBooks, Sports, Story
Ancestor Work In Street Basketball
The basketball court is a place where young black men feel comfortable mourning death, but are there crucial elements missing from their grieving practices?
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
A Trip to Tolstoy Farm
Even if one of the last surviving Tolstoyan communes has fallen short of Leo Tolstoy’s ideals, it’s still turned into something meaningful. It’s a place for people who don’t want to be found.
Posted inNonfiction
Finding the Soundtrack to My Desert Life
In the ’90s, discovering the music of Friends of Dean Martinez helped Aaron Gilbreath stop running and appreciate life in his native Arizona.
Posted inNonfiction, Sports, Story
Losers’ Lunch
Dining out with courtsiders, a rogue, impish species in the tennis ecosystem.
