On showing, telling, and finding one’s way as a literary writer of color.
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Falling in Love with Chicago at Night: An Interview with Jessica Hopper
In “Night Moves,” Jessica Hopper is 80% on her bike and 20% at a show, memorializing a young adulthood spent in just one of “a million Chicagos” — but one that shaped a wide network of artists and writers.
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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.
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Not Quite Not White
Sharmila Sen grew up understanding distinctions between castes and religions, between the educated and the illiterate. Race was a distinction she didn’t understand until she came to America.
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The American Way
A Chinese painter explores the US-Mexico border and discovers the reality of the border crisis.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
To Live and Die in Utopian New Zealand
How the super rich like Peter Thiel are buying land in New Zealand to survive the apocalypse.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, Science & Nature
The Possessed: Dispatches from the Third Trimester
On pregnancy, demons, and Stranger Things.
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The Possessed: Dispatches from the Third Trimester
On pregnancy, demons, and Stranger Things.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Writing
Hanif Abdurraqib on Loving A Tribe Called Quest
“I wasn’t interested in writing the definitive book on A Tribe Called Quest. I was trying to write the definitive book on a single arc of fandom.”
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Highlight, Quotes, Science & Nature
Before We All Teach Someone a Lesson
Online harassment gets out of hand constantly. Can prosocial bots help turn the tide of anonymous interactions before people become abusive?
