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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Talk Like an Egyptian
Cary Barbor traverses language, culture, and class to connect with her new family.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
The Fault in Our Stars: On Fake Celebrity Interviews
Fake celebrity interviews have been around for years, but Germany has seemingly become one of the largest exporters.
Posted inNonfiction
On Silence (or, Speak Again)
Elissa Bassist breaks her silence about everything she’s not supposed to talk about and comes out alive.
Posted inNonfiction
Orwell’s Last Neighborhood
While envisioning the darkest of futures and grappling with mortality, the English writer retreated to an idyllic Scottish isle to write Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Posted inBooks, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
Poem on the Range
Meet Elizabeth Ebert, the “Grand Dame of Cowboy Poetry.”
Posted inNonfiction
In the Country of Women
Amid badass women and endless stories, a young California writer comes of age in the orange groves as the Golden State comes into its own.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
Fruitland
Privately made records enjoy a cult following among collectors, but few are as legendary as Donnie and Joe Emerson’s 1979 LP Dreamin’ Wild.
Posted inNonfiction
‘There’s Virtually No Conversation In Chicago … About the Aftershocks of the Violence.’
In “An American Summer,” journalist Alex Kotlowitz tries to report on gun deaths on Chicago’s South Side with the same attention to survivors, anniversaries, and aftershocks that is paid to mass shootings.
