The Mug Shot: Look straight ahead and contemplate the lousy Kirkus review you’re sure to get. The Talk Show Host:…
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“It’s brave of us to die!” writes Melissa Broder in Death Valley, a desert survival story. The woman in Broder’s…
I Dressed Up as a Husband for My Wedding Marriage I was married once, at least we thought about it,…
For me, it all started with Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Then came the tales of Flannery O’Connor, Shirley Jackson, Ursula…
“The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover”—Mary Shelley I skipped the day we discussed Frankenstein…
Darrin Bell didn’t set out to write his much anticipated graphic memoir, The Talk. He’d initially sold another project delving…
You Can’t Raise a Daughter on Hope and Junk Food Alone Kristen Gentry Share article A New World by Kristen…
From trees and mortality to colonialism and FaceTime sex, Charif Shanahan’s Trace Evidence investigates a restless range of subjects with…
Since Walt Whitman, the American sentence has shape-shifted in and out of forms, from race-car lyrical lines that drive off…
We’re celebrating peak fall with this interactive choose-your-own-journey which will let you decide where the story goes, with book recommendations…
In Myriam Gurba’s latest essay collection Creep, the Mexican American author interrogates both those who deceive, exploit, and oppress others…
I have a set of cigarette burns zagging up my right arm. I don’t talk about them to friends—there are…
I met Bella Swan in the middle of 2008, when the anticipatory Twilight movie poster circulated at my school. I…
The Many and Various Uses for Mayonnaise The Many and Various Uses for Mayonnaise One little pale fresh tennis ball…
Justin Torres’ much-awaited follow-up to We The Animals, Blackouts is a meandering conversation between an unnamed young queer narrator and…
I don’t remember exactly when I first heard it but it was in high school sometime in the early nineties.…
Author Elissa Bassist is obsessed with the patriarchy. She once texted me, “BENNY needs to go pee, and I need…
Betrayed by the City That Raised Me Annesha Mitha Share article The Waiting Room by Annesha Mitha I sweat through…