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‘I’m Incredulous That People Do This Repeatedly. The Second Book Thing Is So Real.’

by Zan Romanoff September 5, 2019January 27, 2023

Mary H.K. Choi discusses her latest novel, which examines how “holograms and digital envoys” represent us online, and why it feels like her “second book signals the death of my first.”

Story

The Erotic Thriller’s Little Death

by Soraya Roberts May 24, 2019March 31, 2023

What/If references the celebrated steamy genre of the 80s and 90s, but lacks its guts. Why can’t any of the new neo-noirs go all the way?

Nonfiction

Other Rachel Lyons

by Rachel Lyon April 5, 2019April 21, 2023

Having a fairly common name gives Rachel Lyon occasional glimpses into the lives of her doppelgangers — and the roads she has not taken.

Nonfiction

How Google Discovered the Value of Surveillance

by Longreads September 5, 2019January 27, 2023

In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.

Crime, Current Events, education, Nonfiction, Story

The Battle Over Teaching Chicago’s Schools About Police Torture and Reparations

by Peter C. Baker February 7, 2019October 19, 2022

A little-known city law has educators figuring out how to talk to eighth and tenth grade students about the history of Chicago police abuse.

Nonfiction, Quotes

The Case for Dungeons & Dragons

by Pam Mandel February 2, 2017October 19, 2022

I was never a Dungeons and Dragons person, but as a nerd, seems like they’ve always been nearby. I would not have expected a Venn diagram overlapping the D&D nerds I know — delightful, gentle weirdos who like elves and other imaginary creatures — with high security prisoners. Elisabeth de Cleer wrote about one such […]