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Escaping Into the Crossword Puzzle

by Peter Rubin December 20, 2021October 19, 2022

“Part of the appeal of a young woman crossword constructor is that she is focussing her intelligence on a frivolity; she is making her smarts unthreatening and benign. Of course, nothing about my story, neither its reflection of cultural misogyny nor its origins in my willful self-destruction, is benign. Surely this is not what the […]

Posted inEditor's Pick

‘Knowing It Could Kill You Isn’t a Deterrent’: The Deadly Trade in Diet Pills

by Carolyn Wells July 21, 2020October 19, 2022

“She told her friend she wanted to get into a residential eating disorders clinic. She also ordered more DNP.”

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

Body of Lies

by Deenie Hartzog-Mislock April 8, 2020December 9, 2022

Deenie Hartzog-Mislock confronts a lifetime of body image trauma when her marriage turns south and sexless.

Posted inNonfiction

School for Girls

by Jasmin Aviva Sandelson June 18, 2019October 26, 2022

Years after recovering from anorexia, Jasmin Sandelson writes a letter to the high school friend she idolized, and explores how hunger, love, and envy shaped — and ended — their relationship.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Reappearing Act

by Sari Botton February 28, 2019October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which, in the aftermath of an eating disorder, Audrey Olivero builds a new relationship with her body — through knife-throwing.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

The Reappearing Act

by Audrey Olivero February 26, 2019October 19, 2022

In the aftermath of an eating disorder, Audrey Olivero builds a new relationship with her body — through knife-throwing.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction

The Reappearing Act

by Audrey Olivero February 26, 2019October 19, 2022

In the aftermath of an eating disorder, Audrey Olivero builds a new relationship with her body — through knife-throwing.

Posted inEditor's Pick

My Brother, My Self

by Sari Botton December 14, 2018October 19, 2022

In this personal essay, Katie Prout tries to untangle the story of her brother’s complicated, life-long battle with alcoholism against the backdrop of her family’s history of addiction.

Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

The Secrets We Keep Amid All the Sweets

by Aaron Gilbreath December 10, 2018October 19, 2022

Talking about male bulimia.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

The Wrong Pair

by Lisa Williamson Rosenberg November 19, 2018October 19, 2022

After decades of shame, discrimination in the ballet world, and some serious back pain, Lisa W. Rosenberg concludes it’s time to down-size her double-E knockers.

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