Broad City returns tonight, much to the glee of critics and fans alike. At Grantland, Rachel Syme spent time with the comic geniuses behind the show, Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer.
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The Art of Running from the Police
A young man concerned that the police will take him into custody comes to see danger and risk in the mundane doings of everyday life. To survive outside prison, he learns to hesitate when others walk casually forward, to see what others fail to notice, to fear what others trust or take for granted.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Love, Identity, and Genderqueer Family Making
An excerpt from Maggie Nelson’s ‘The Argonauts’.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
John McPhee on One Word You Couldn't Publish in The New Yorker
Fuck, fucker, fuckest; fuckest, fucker, fuck. In all my days, I had found that four-letter word—with its silent “c” and its quartzite “k”—more shocking than a thunderclap. My parents thought it was a rhetorical crime. Mr. Shawn actually seemed philosophical about its presence in the language, but not in his periodical. My young daughters, evidently, […]
Posted inNonfiction, Story
‘We Value Experience’: Can a Secret Society Become a Business?
Jeff Hull’s Latitude Society explores the possibilities of art, intimacy, experience, and membership.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
A San Francisco Story
Princess Anastasia was homeless, and lived and died in the Castro. Two different families piece together a life.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
How a Prolific Counterfeiter Tricked a Swiss Paper Mill Into Helping Him
In GQ magazine, Wells Tower talks to Frank Bourassa, one of the most prolific counterfeiters in American history who reproduced more than $200 million in twenty dollar bills.
Posted inNonfiction, Unapologetic Women
The Answer Is Never
Rewriting the false narrative of childlessness.
Posted inNonfiction, Profiles & Interviews
How to Be Aca-Awesome
An interview with Kay Cannon, Pitch Perfect screenwriter, on how her a cappella comedy might be changing the definition of cool.
Posted inFeature, Nonfiction
Fox and Friends
What’s the point of a hunt without a kill? A look inside the (nearly) bloodless world of fox hunting and a thwarted family legacy.
