In 2005, during the dawn of reality television and before social media transformed these experiments into income-generators for future influencers,…
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Alexandria, 1934. The wedding of the author’s grandparents, Allegra (Freja) Berdugo and Armand (Abdu) Dayan.What of Egypt is left in…
There is something disconcerting about reading the unpublished poems of a great and passed poet such as Etheridge Knight. After…
Author’s Note: I have chosen to publish this essay pseudonymously to prevent retribution from my ex-husband – a very real…
It’s the year 2014, and the sounds of “Dark Horse” by Katy Perry echo through your room as you slip…
Sinéad O’Connor Was Right All Along The Shape of Progress O Sinéad—you are dead & the headlines beside you are…
In the following tribute, Yousef Khanfar pens a letter to the eminent scholar Salma Khadra Jayyusi, laureate of the 2021…
My first encounter with Nigerian horror stories were the Igbo folktales my parents narrated to me in my childhood, each…
Ashley Wurzbacher’s debut novel How To Care for a Human Girl jumps with both feet into the debate over reproductive…
Eight months after my dad died, I flew to Anchorage, Alaska. Feeling untethered from my own life in Brooklyn, I…
Photo by Nicolas Winkler / Flickr To celebrate the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on August 9, I invited…
A Wax Man Lit a Fire in My Heart Chloe Aridjis Share article Dialogue with a Somnambulist by Chloe Aridjis…
At the start of Ben Purkert’s debut novel, The Men Can’t Be Saved, the protagonist Seth’s copywriting campaign goes viral.…
It’s the height of summer, the sun is scorching and the air is thick with anticipation. Need some fun plans? We’re…
As a reader I want a deeply flawed love interest. A relationship that’s doomed from the start. My first taste…
In their debut poetry collection I Am the Most Dangerous Thing, Candace Williams collages identity, political and economics matters to…
In “Sundae,” the third episode of the recently-released second season of Hulu’s The Bear, chef Sydney Adamu, played by Ayo…
Questions for My White Therapist Questions for My White Therapist Yes, I’m sure you were wild as a teenager, Linda,…