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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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction
From One Friendship, Lessons on Life, Death, AIDS, and Childlessness
S. Kirk Walsh reflects on her friendship with a gay man battling AIDS — how he taught her to grieve her own infertility, and live life more fully.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
How to Be Single
Shelly Oria shares a manual for life after you’ve left your husband and your girlfriend.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
How to Be Single
Shelly Oria shares a manual for life after you’ve left your husband and your girlfriend.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
A Birth Plan for Dying
Hanna Neuschwander grapples with ending a wanted pregnancy, and finds that “right” or “wrong” fail to describe the moral reckoning.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
A Birth Plan for Dying
Hanna Neuschwander grapples with ending a wanted pregnancy, and finds that “right” or “wrong” fail to describe the moral reckoning.
Posted inNonfiction
Leaving a Good Man Is Hard To Do
When women end relationships, it seems like the emotion we most acutely feel is the guilt of having pushed it away.
Posted inBooks, Story
Angrily Experiencing the Best Days of Our Lives
Ukrainian author and poet Serhiy Zhadan writes about resisting corruption and coping with loss in a society that is spiraling senselessly into conflict.
Posted inNonfiction
When Newspapers Cover the Private Lives of Nazis
Ordinary details can furnish a room, they can set a table, they can fill the time between hushed meetings of planned genocide.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story
City on a Hill
A dementia patient’s daughter begins to question her own grasp on reality.
