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A Woman In Love Is a Woman Alone
On the profound loneliness of female desire in Lisa Taddeo’s “Three 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.
Little FĂĽhrers Everywhere
Vegas Tenhold spent six years covering the disorganized chaos of hate groups, and watched as they began to gather around a few media savvy voices.
The End of Poker Night
Mindy Greenstein looks back on the gambling that was a big part of life with her Holocaust refugee parents.
Michelle Tea and the Betrayal of Queer Memoir
Memoir is always a betrayal. When writing about life in queer subcultures, the harm of honesty can feel even greater.
How Coming Out Made Me Whole: High Maintenance’s Katja Blichfeld Tells Her Story
In this as-told-to personal essay, High Maintenance Katja Blichfeld speaks about the vital importance — and difficulty, particularly after being raised evangelical — of coming out as gay this past year, and ending her marriage to her collaborator.
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Five: The Remnant
The Kingdom of Heaven, borne out of blood
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.
5 Questions for Kristi Coulter About Writing, Humor, and Getting Sober
“If I couldn’t find humor in sobriety, I probably wouldn’t make it.”
