Jia Tolentino talks about what kinds of personalities thrive online, why she is suspicious of her own self-narrative, and the pervading sense that everything’s spiraling out of control.
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Sex Work and Workers: A Reading List to Get You Beyond Law & Order SVU and Pretty Woman
The best way to learn what being a sex worker is like is to listen to sex workers.
Out of Toon
Political cartoons don’t make a huge chunk of change, but they do change the culture. If only that were as valuable to the media as money.
How to Predict the Unpredictable
After the death of her dog, Katie Gutierrez grapples with the ripple effects of her decisions — and how to live with uncertainty as a mother.
Of Safe Words and the Sacred
A BDSM relationship gone wrong helped Britni de la Cretaz find God.
Of Safe Words and the Sacred
A BDSM relationship gone wrong helped Britni de la Cretaz find God.
When Did Pop Culture Become Homework?
When art is a should or a must or a have to, when we turn it into a chore, it is the opposite of what art is supposed to be.
10 Outstanding Short Stories to Read in 2019
Stories by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Min Jin Lee, and Saul Bellow.
‘My Teachers Said We Weren’t Allowed To Use Them.’
How Cecelia Watson learned to stop worrying and love the semicolon.
Breast Implants, Beyond Real and Fake
Nell Boeschenstein reflects on the culturally fraught discourse around post-mastectomy reconstruction.
