First, let me say of course I’m worried about all of it: the global warming, the cruel virus, the oaf in the white house. Iran and the bomb and North ...
A person comes to terms with the communal experience of their gender. Acknowledging how they feel is not enough; they must reconcile their choices and their feelings with the world ...
A Commentary on the #MeAt20 trend on Twitter which saw people posting photos of themselves at that age. And the valorization of youth and the pressure on women to be ...
An American kid discovering Greece.
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“A monster that lives in a cave up the road,” Evans said. “He looks in the windows of houses at night, and if he sees a kid who’s not asleep, ...
At first blush, a chapel might seem like an odd venue for a scene like this. But the members of Boulder Burlesque – “where the profane is sacred” – regard ...
She bowed her head and took a moment before answering, “I am not afraid. I cannot be afraid. Tesfay needs me not to be afraid.” Continue Reading Living ...
“Have you lost your virginity yet?” my mom asked in her usual impassioned tone as she was applying aggressive red geisha eye makeup on me. Continue Reading ...
To feel more comfortable on the humble side of life: that’s perhaps the mark of a true humorist. Continue Reading The Low Art of Christoph Niemann
Three Mondays ago, I met a man who made me want to run home and hug my son. A smothery mother hug, the kind that said: Fuck off world: he’s ...
Curiosity led me on a journey that spanned nearly six years, with repeated visits to the area, and created a lasting friendship with the Gopala Krishna Bhajana Mandali, one of ...
We ride the trains incessantly, and they in reality go nowhere. They circle the 500 square miles of our city that has few trees but clean air. Continue ...
Small towns help maintain the vitality of whatever place we call “home.” Even if we only know them from a distance, their very existence gives us a mental respite from ...
Translated by Lucy Rand. I start to walk… I walk. I always walk when I need to think. I walk the congested streets of Rome and my heart, my extravagant ...
Everything is closed. The offices that tower to the sky in the skyscrapers, the schools, churches, restaurants, theaters, public gathering places of all sorts. Continue Reading Dear Pandemic ...
Prozac made me cisgender, I say to my therapist inside of her bright blue office-box, barely big enough to hold all of these painful jokes and thoughts. Flashback. It’s August ...
Khaled cranked the wheel to the left, sending the Land Rover skidding in the powdery Saharan sand. Half-digested fish and bits of flatbread rumbled in my stomach as nausea climbed ...
Eppur si muove Of all the pictures of Isak Dinesen that I have seen, my favorite is the one reproduced in the 1992 Modern Library edition of Out of Africa. ...
A story of how a peak moment for me as a parent was marred by an act of domestic terror committed by a neo-Nazi and white supremacist. Continue ...
