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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

‘Let’s Reset’: A Career Social Distancer Mends Some Fences

by Sari Botton April 6, 2020December 9, 2022

Coronavirus inspires Sari Botton to reach out to family and friends she’s fallen out with.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story

Seventeen

by Steve Edwards December 3, 2018October 19, 2022

Steve Edwards revisits an early heartbreak to ask: “How do we find compassion for who we used to be?”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Theater of Forgiveness

by Sari Botton November 2, 2018October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which Hafizah Geter contemplates the personal and cultural legacy of violence against Black bodies.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women

Theater of Forgiveness

by Hafizah Geter November 2, 2018October 19, 2022

Hafizah Geter contemplates the personal and cultural legacy of violence against Black bodies.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

Theater of Forgiveness

by Hafizah Geter November 2, 2018October 19, 2022

Hafizah Geter contemplates the personal and cultural legacy of violence against Black bodies.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction

‘Forgive Yourself. And Forgive Me.’

by Alice Driver March 19, 2018October 19, 2022

Alice Driver considers what lessons to take from a late uncle’s life.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

‘Forgive Yourself. And Forgive Me.’

by Alice Driver March 19, 2018October 19, 2022

Alice Driver considers what lessons to take from a late uncle’s life.

Posted inArts & Culture, Story, Unapologetic Women

The Unforgiving Minute

by Laurie Penny November 7, 2017October 19, 2022

Men, get ready to be uncomfortable for a while. While forgiveness may come one day, it won’t be soon.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Etgar Keret on Why Yom Kippur Has Always Been His Favorite Holiday

by juliawick September 23, 2015October 19, 2022

Yom Kippur was always my favorite holiday. Even in nursery school, when all the other kids liked Purim because of the costumes, Hanukkah because of the latkes, and Passover because of the long vacation, I was hooked on Yom Kippur. If holidays were like kids, I once thought when I was still a boy, then […]

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

How to Tell Your Children and Friends That Your Father Is a Serial Killer

by juliawick February 25, 2015October 19, 2022

Recently, Roy Wenzl profiled a woman named Kerri Rawson for The Wichita Eagle. Rawson’s life was upended a decade ago, when an FBI agent knocked on her door and informed her that the man she’d always known as a loving father was in fact the BTK serial killer. Wenzl’s piece is a compelling and meticulous portrait of a […]

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