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Posted inBooks, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Story
Here is My Heart
Long after the shooting at her old high school, Megan Stielstra worries about her father’s heart. Part one of a three-part series on gun violence.
Posted inArts & Culture, History, Unapologetic Women
It Takes a Village: A ‘Village Voice’ Reading List
The paper redefined the alt-weekly and introduced readers to a new kind of journalist and critic.
Posted inReading List
Rising Up Against Climate Change: A Reading List
On Earth Day, thousands marched in support of science and the environment. But as these stories show, the fight has just begun.
Posted inNonfiction
Language Acquisition
Diana Spechler recalls fleeing her life in New York City for a new one with a painter in his village in central Mexico.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
One Novelist Remembers Her Moment
The cover was striking: it showed a syringe. On the back cover one character leaned over a table, snorting cocaine. The calls from radio stations began, the advertising spots, the letters, above all the letters. Girls telling me about their first acid trip. Gay guys who’d been thrown out of their houses. Girls in love […]
Posted inScience & Nature, Story
Atomic City
On January 3, 1961, a nuclear reactor the size of a small grain silo exploded in the Idaho desert, causing one of the only recorded nuclear fatalities on U.S. soil.
Posted inNonfiction, Story, Writing
Use and Abuse
Amy Long on how it feels to fight for the man you don’t want.
Posted inBusiness, investigations, Science & Nature
The Strike: Chemicals, Cancer, and the Fight for Health Care
Workers at Momentive Performance Materials had given their lives to the chemical plant. The strike was supposed to save what little they had left.
Posted inBusiness, investigations, Science & Nature, Story
The Strike: Chemicals, Cancer, and the Fight for Health Care
Workers at Momentive Performance Materials had given their lives to the chemical plant. The strike was supposed to save what little they had left.
