The working class is walking away from America’s favorite business transaction — traditional marriage — as good jobs disappear.
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Viv Albertine on Dating Again in Her 50s
In my teens I was upset that I was too young to go out with any of the boys in my favorite bands. Now they’re all with women who weren’t even born when I had that thought.
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The Blue Ridge Country King
No one would have thought that Highland Ridge, Virginia was the center of anything. Then Jim McCoy’s honky-tonk came along.
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The Cowboy Image and the Growth of Western Music
How did cowboy hats and boots become the visual iconography of American rural music?
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Queens of Infamy: Joanna of Naples
If you thought four (mostly) crappy husbands, vengeful Hungarian cousins, and the Black Death could cramp this queen’s style, think again.
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Queens of Infamy: Eleanor of Aquitaine
Life gets busy when you have empires to build and marriages to annul.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Story, Unapologetic Women, Writing
A Beginner’s Guide to Fly Fishing With Your Father
It was the place he came to feel wild, and I was ready to trespass into the world of men.
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We’re delighted to share three responses to Scott’s essay “Between the Wolf in the Tall Grass and the Wolf in the Tall Story” from Paul Bloom, William Gatewood, and Daniel Raeburn. Jump to responses by Paul, William, and Daniel. * * * The Arrogance of Empathy by Paul Bloom I don’t regret calling my last […]
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Grown-Woman Theology
Lessons of race, blackness and power from a self-described nerdy Black girl.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
A Farewell to Fuckboys in the Age of Consent Culture
Minda Honey explores the long unraveling of a #MeToo moment in the wake of cultural upheaval.
