Women with power have the capacity to silence women with less — and they wield it. Why can’t they see that?
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Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
It’s Getting Hot in Here, So Take Off All Your Constructs
Hot Girl Summer has women subverting a feminine archetype, but only if they can embody it first.
Posted inBooks, Editor's Pick, Nonfiction, Science & Nature
The Quest for the Collision Zone: An Arctic Expedition
Geologists on a mission to vindicate their theory of a lost mountain range discover something even more significant buried beneath the ice.
Posted inNonfiction
Renovating a Family
After her husband’s infidelity, Christine Kalafus re-architected her marriage. Now she needs to let her son in on the plans.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Afterlife of a Memoir
Novelist Aminatta Forna writes about the lingering effects, fourteen years later, of having written a memoir, The Devil That Danced on the Water, about the political hanging of her father in Sierra Leone.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Two Clocks, Running Down
In “Time Is a Thing the Body Moves Through,” T Fleischmann resists metaphor, even as they reflect on the metaphor-saturated work of Félix González-Torres.
Posted inEditor's Pick
But What Will Your Parents Think?
In this personal essay, This Will Be My Undoing author Morgan Jerkins tackles the time-worn question of how far is too far to go in revealing yourself in first-person writing.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Highlight, Quotes
The Trans Parent Whose Journey Inspired a Television Show
Her father’s gender transition was the impetus behind Jill Soloway’s show.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Brigid, Magdalene, My Mother, and Me
Carmel Mc Mahon contemplates the legacy of trauma passed down through generations of Irish women.
