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A Lie of Creative Rehabilitation in ‘Vacationland’

by Sari Botton August 30, 2017October 19, 2022

The prison workshop where your adorable Maine souvenirs were made is more like a factory, and the inmates like slaves.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Hidden Costs: When Prison Labor Gets Upsold as Artisanal Kitsch

by Sari Botton August 29, 2017October 19, 2022

An expose on the Maine Department of Correction Industries woodshop and other prison-based businesses like it, which frame their exploitive inmate manufacturing programs as rehabilitative when in reality they’re more like state-sanctioned slavery.

Posted inReading List

A Reading List Inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins

by Emily Perper February 2, 2017October 19, 2022

I used the seven deadly sins–lust, gluttony, envy, greed, sloth, pride, and anger — as the springboard for choosing these stories. 1. LUST: “Eileen Myles on the Excruciating Pain of Waiting for Love.” (Eileen Myles, The Cut, February 2016) Poet and novelist Eileen Myles muses on a summer fling that should’ve lasted forever. 2. GLUTTONY: […]

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Reading List

Full Disclosure: A Reading List About Confessions

by Emily Perper October 10, 2016October 19, 2022

In these six stories, a drunk driver confesses via viral video, an ex-Catholic returns to confession, a high-school cheater reveals her indiscretions, and more.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Reading List

Full Disclosure: A Reading List About Confessions

by Emily Perper October 10, 2016October 19, 2022

In these six stories, a drunk driver confesses via viral video, an ex-Catholic returns to confession, a high-school cheater reveals her indiscretions, and more.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Reading List

On Beauty: A Reading List About Makeup

by Emily Perper August 21, 2016October 19, 2022

Beauty criticism analyzes the ways we can subvert a society that would have us subsumed by self-loathing. We use the tools we’ve been given. Makeup, then, can be a weapon. And it can be damn fun.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Reading List

On Beauty: A Reading List About Makeup

by Emily Perper August 21, 2016October 19, 2022

Beauty criticism analyzes the ways we can subvert a society that would have us subsumed by self-loathing. We use the tools we’ve been given. Makeup, then, can be a weapon. And it can be damn fun.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, 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 inFeatured, Nonfiction, 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 inFeatured, Nonfiction, Reading List

Into the World of Mushrooms: A Reading List

by Emily Perper March 20, 2016October 19, 2022

In the following five pieces, you’ll meet foragers, hikers, researchers, anthropologists, drug dealers and puppies.

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