It was the place he came to feel wild, and I was ready to trespass into the world of men.
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Posted inNonfiction, Story
We Are Scientists
A scientist examines the connections between his Indian immigrant father and the brilliant but overlooked Indian scientist Yellapragada Subbarow.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story
A Remarkable Child
My friend Sam went back to Brooklyn and his gang of peculiar white buddies watching their endless Stanley Kubrick film festival. I shall not see him again.
Posted inCurrent Events, Essays & Criticism, Story
Maybe We Can Make a Circle
Nicole Piasecki writes a letter to the wife of the shooter who killed her father. Part two of a three-part series on gun violence.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Death Rattle: The Body’s Betrayals
In this moving lyric essay on grief, pain, and the body’s frailty, Ellen Wayland-Smith recalls, with heart-wrenching intimacy, how bodies have failed and fallen in her own life, and reflects on various literary and historical reckonings with the finality of death and the inevitability of the fall.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Cataloguing the Detritus of Relationships Past
Essayist Leslie Jamison visits Zagreb’s Museum of Broken Relationships.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
The Itch and the Touch
Families are complicated. Caring for Grandpa John was even more so.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Mr. Throat and Me
When life’s greatest pleasure is the one you have to quit.