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To All the Brooklyn Brownstones I’ve Loved Before

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 7, 2022October 19, 2022

In this essay, Beth Boyle Machlan writes about possibility, desire, real estate, finding one’s home, and coveting the Brooklyn brownstone. The piece is part of Machlan’s Catapult column, Unreal Estates, which explores issues of housing in America through a very personal lens. To me, back then, that brownstone stood for everything I wanted: solidity and […]

Posted inEditor's Pick

Since I Became Symptomatic

by Sari Botton March 26, 2020October 19, 2022

A month after filing for divorce, single mom Leslie Jamison contracted COVID-19. She wrote this meditation on single parenthood, loneliness, longing, and frustration while sheltering in place — and sweating out the virus — with her 2-year-old daughter.

Posted inCurrent Events, Science & Nature, Story

A View of the Bay

by Aimée Lutkin November 4, 2019January 13, 2023

A family’s losses after Hurricane Sandy didn’t come in the usual order or with the usual speed.

Posted inEditor's Pick

When to Throw a Goodbye Party

by Sari Botton July 19, 2019October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which Joy Notoma grapples with: saying goodbye to friends before a move, the complicated grief of shunning, and the way one parting can be a painful reminder of so many others.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

When to Throw a Goodbye Party

by Joy Notoma July 19, 2019October 19, 2022

Joy Notoma grapples with saying goodbye to friends before a move, the complicated grief of shunning, and the way one parting can be a painful reminder of so many others.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction

When to Throw a Goodbye Party

by Joy Notoma July 19, 2019October 19, 2022

Joy Notoma grapples with saying goodbye to friends before a move, the complicated grief of shunning, and the way one parting can be a painful reminder of so many others.

Posted inCulture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

“This Is the Glittering Fringe”: On Drag Inclusivity at the Rosemont

by Krista Stevens April 4, 2019October 19, 2022

‘“The drag here is messy, not vanilla,’ one regular tells me over the din. He sips his drink and settles on a word. ‘Genuine.'”

Posted inEditor's Pick

At Risk, at Home and Abroad

by Sari Botton January 14, 2019October 19, 2022

As Joy Notoma grapples with uterine fibroids, harmful biases in the medical establishment, and a move from Brooklyn to West Africa she wonders where, as a black woman, she can find safety.

Posted inArts & Culture, Story

The Last Puerto Rican Social Club in Brooklyn

by C.J. Karlsson October 22, 2018October 19, 2022

Social clubs were once the glue that held the Puerto Rican diaspora together. Today, there’s only one left in Brooklyn.

Posted inCulture, Design, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

How Brooklyn Lost Itself

by Aaron Gilbreath July 6, 2018October 19, 2022

On the way from the old Brooklyn to the new branded, post-industrial Brooklyn, the city got lost.

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