In this warm and lighthearted personal essay (and excerpt from a forthcoming memoir), writer Glynn Pogue recalls the moment in her pre-teen years that she found comfort and belonging with a group of girls in black, upper middle class Brooklyn.
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Our Bodies, Our Selves
Roxane Gay tapped 24 writers to address what it’s like to live in an “unruly” body today.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Food, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
Shovel, Knife, Story, Ax
When you live with animals, you collect killing stories.
Posted inArts & Culture, Commentary, Culture, Story
Memory and the Lost Cause
An incomplete nostalgia still undergirds parts of American life.
Posted inNonfiction, Unapologetic Women
Eileen Myles: There’s No Escaping History
The poet and one-time presidential candidate isn’t the least bit surprised by the state of our union.
Posted inBooks, Crime, Nonfiction, Quotes
Processing Clues About a Friend’s True Identity to Make Sense of Her Murder
In an excerpt from her memoir, Carolyn Murnick tries to piece together the stabbing murder of her childhood friend.
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Amy Tan on Writing and the Secrets of Her Past
Nicole Chung interviews novelist Amy Tan about her parents’ secrets, whether her late father might have voted for Donald Trump, and her new memoir, Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir.
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And Headbangers Shall Know Thy Names
The untold story of two musicians who contributed to Guns N’ Roses’ early success.
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Records on Bone
One young Ukrainian-American struggles to piece together a clear portrait of her parents’ difficult Soviet past, once they quit erasing, and began embracing, their legacy.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
Gone Gray
Jessica Berger Gross reflects on what letting her roots grow in at age 45 has meant, in terms of feminism and resistance.
