Imran Siddiquee considers the ways in which his identities — as a Bangladeshi-American and as a man — were shaped by growing up in the shadow of The Simpsons.
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What Alex Jones and Amanda Chantal Bacon Have in Common
A new profile of the Moon Juice entrepreneur reveals how the hippie left intersects with the conspiracist right.
Posted inArts & Culture, History, Unapologetic 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.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
The Way We Walk: A Reading List
In the following essays, Antonia Malachik discusses the cultural implications of our aversion to walking; Garnette Cadogan relates how his walks are coded by his skin color, depending on where in the world he is; Adee Braun praises the New York eat-and-walk, and more.
Posted inArts & Culture, Blog Post, Reading List
Failed Promises: A ‘Bachelorette’ Reading List
This was the year ‘The Bachelorette’ tried to take on race. Things did not go well.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Story
Hoffnung um jeden Preis
Privatkliniken in Deutschland verkaufen Krebspatienten Hoffnung zu Höchstpreisen — mit durchwachsenem Erfolg.
Posted inReading List
Creepypasta, Shirley Jackson, and Horror Podcasts: A Halloween Reading Guide
The spookiness doesn’t have to end with the weekend—indulge in classic creepypasta, scary podcasts, and Ms. (Shirley) Jackson on your lunch break.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Recovering My Fifth Sense
Kavita Das recalls learning to self-advocate as a patient with a cleft palate — and as a child in a family full of doctors.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Recovering My Fifth Sense
Kavita Das recalls learning to self-advocate as a patient with a cleft palate — and as a child in a family full of doctors.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Wrong Woman to Eff With: Mary Karr on Being Groped in NYC
In the New Yorker, memoirist Mary Karr recounts a recent, casual sexual assault by a “crotchgrabber” on the street in Manhattan.
