At Lenny, read an excerpt of Ayelet Waldman’s memoir of LSD microdosing, A Really Good Day.
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Eight Things You Need to Know About Me and the Beach
A white woman came up to my mother, leaned in close and said, “We whites have to stick together against the Asian invasion.” My mother was ecstatic. “She liked me! They like me here!”
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Dress You Up in My Love
Doree Shafrir reflects on how Halloween changed for her after struggling with infertility.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
The Organ Transplant Story You Don’t Hear
Ten years ago, James “Bo” Calvert received a transplant to replace his only kidney. Now that kidney is failing.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Ten Translations of Care
Mary Wang recalls the ways in which she and her family in China conspired to hide her grandmother’s cancer diagnosis from her.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Ten Translations of Care
Mary Wang recalls the ways in which she and her family in China conspired to hide her grandmother’s cancer diagnosis from her.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Story, Unapologetic Women
Grown-Woman Theology
Lessons of race, blackness and power from a self-described nerdy Black girl.
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All You Have to Bring is Your Love of Everything
Ada Calhoun writes, in Elle, about a weekend getaway with her husband to the kind of “romantic” Poconos resort she used to see advertised on television as a kid. Could a couple of nights away from their kid and all the post-election news — not to mention sleeping on a bed beneath a mirrored ceiling, […]
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
The Power of Shutting Up and Sitting in Silence
Kathryn Smith went to an Ashram, and it made her feel better about everything.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Power of Shutting Up and Sitting in Silence
Kathryn Smith went to an Ashram, and it made her feel better about everything.
