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To Reflect, To Love, and To Protest: A Pride Month Reading List

by Emily Perper June 29, 2018October 19, 2022

A roundup of longreads to celebrate Pride Month.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Bringing Her Dad Up to Speed After Thirty Years Away

by Sari Botton May 3, 2017October 19, 2022

Reconnecting with her father after his release from prison, Ashley Ford must also bring him into the digital age.

Posted inEditor's Pick

My Father Spent 30 Years In Prison. Now He’s Out.

by Sari Botton May 1, 2017October 19, 2022

A touching personal essay in which writer Ashley Ford reveals that she and her father are happily rebuilding their relationship now that he has been released from prison after 30 years. Slowly they are getting to know each other in ways they never before had. One of the more challenging aspects: bringing him up to […]

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Essays & Criticism, Podcasts, Reading List, Uncategorized

Leave Them Alone! A Reading List On Celebrity and Privacy

by Emily Perper March 26, 2017October 19, 2022

Why do we feel like we own celebrities—not just their art or their products, but their images and their personal lives?

Posted inNonfiction, Reading List

I Can See Your Future: Six Stories About Psychics

by Emily Perper May 15, 2016October 19, 2022

Stories about looking for clues about the future.

Posted inNonfiction, Reading List

I Can See Your Future: Six Stories About Psychics

by Emily Perper May 15, 2016October 19, 2022

Stories about looking for clues about the future.

Posted inNonfiction, Reading List

The Good, the Bad, and the Highly Personal: A Reading List About Haircuts

by Emily Perper April 3, 2016October 19, 2022

Six stories about our relationships with our hair.

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