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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

Losing the Plot

by Sari Botton December 19, 2018October 19, 2022

Not planning for death is killing me.

Posted inNonfiction

Blowin’ Up the ‘90s

by Rebecca Schuman December 4, 2018October 27, 2022

I can’t help but wonder when the decade really ended.

Posted inNonfiction

You’ve Reached the Winter of Our Discontent

by Rebecca Schuman March 27, 2018October 27, 2022

A half-assed elegy for the Cool-Loser Dream Boy of Gen-X cinema.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The New Midlife Crisis: Why (and How) it’s Hitting Gen X Women

by Sari Botton October 12, 2017October 19, 2022

Ada Calhoun’s ranging examination of women in the Generation X demographic — sandwiched between the much larger Baby Boom and Millennial generations — and their unique struggles in mid-life.

Still from the 1985 movie, The Breakfast Club
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Gen-X: We’ll Win in the End.

by Pam Mandel March 2, 2017October 19, 2022

“Boomers live in the past and have ransomed the future. Millennials fear the future and are ignorant of the past.”

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