This personal essay by Sarah Miller has gone viral and divided Twitter. Those who love the piece — about Miller’s struggle in 1996 to get away with panning “The English Patient” for an alt weekly paper — appreciate her brutal honesty and her irreverence toward the Serious Film establishment.
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A Visit to Opioid Country
In this personal essay, Aaron Thier contemplates the connections between privilege, addiction, and recovery.
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A Birth Plan for Dying
In this personal essay, Hanna Neuschwander grapples with ending a wanted pregnancy, and finds that “right” or “wrong” fail to describe the moral reckoning.
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The Next Level of Commitment: Revealing Our Money Secrets
A personal essay in which Vanessa Golenia contemplates the ins-and-outs of merging finances as the higher earner — and bigger spender — in her (heterosexual) relationship.
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Finding Comfort in Small Spaces
In this personal essay, Jessica Gross considers her preference for certain types of confinement.
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Ten Translations of Care
Mary Wang recalls the ways in which she and her family in China conspired to hide her grandmother’s cancer diagnosis from her.
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The Miracle of the Mundane
In an excerpt from her new essay collection, Heather Havrilesky calls for tuning out the online cacophony telling us we aren’t enough, and tuning in to the soul-affirming, quiet truth of the present moment.
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Weigh the Costs — and Occasional Benefits — of Ethnic Ambiguity
In this personal essay, Aram Mrjoian reflects on his experiences of being part Armenian in America.
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To Post, or Not to Post?
In this personal essay, writer Eloghosa Osunde contemplates the role of marginalized artists in online activism.
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Having the Wrong Conversations About Hate Activity
A personal essay about the ways in which a terrified mother tried — and failed — to be a walking-talking public service announcement.