When I was a kid, I wanted my antisemitic tormentors to accept me. I wanted to be their friend.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story, Uncategorized
Violence Girl
How a young bilingual Latina became one of punk’s enduring icons and helped create a new musical universe.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature
The Toxic Legacy of Building 606
The San Francisco police officers stationed on the Hunters Point Superfund site worked atop the literal and figurative fallout of the US Military’s WWII-era atomic testing.
Posted inNonfiction
Queens of Infamy: Njinga
The Portuguese colonizers of West Central Africa learned it the hard way: you mess with the Queen of Ndongo and Matamba at your own peril.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Looking for Carolina Maria de Jesus
For a brief period in the 1960s, the Afro-Brazilian author of the memoir “Child of the Dark” was one of the most well-known writers in the world.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
After Three Children, Reclaiming My Body and My Mind
In the wake of childbirth and postpartum complications affecting her mental health and her marriage, Ukamaka Olisakwe picks herself up and starts over — in grad school.
Posted inNonfiction
If You Should Find Yourself in the Dark
Debbie Weingarten considers the anxieties of mothering and being human in a volatile world.
Posted inFiction, Reading List
10 Outstanding Short Stories to Read in 2019
Stories by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Min Jin Lee, and Saul Bellow.
Posted inBooks, Culture, Nonfiction, Story
Walking Across California
To understand what the Golden State is compared to what it was, one solitary hiker follows the trail of the first overland Spanish expedition into California 250 years later.
Posted inNonfiction
Betting the Farm on the Drought
Farmers like sixth-generation Illinois farmer Ethan Cox can’t wait for policymakers to protect them from climate change. To survive, they have to adapt their operations now, if they can.
