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On the Unattainable Myth of Feminine Beauty Ideals and Our Culture of Fat Phobia

On the Unattainable Myth of Feminine Beauty Ideals and Our Culture of Fat Phobia

Sesali Bowen Considers What It Means to Be a "Bad Bitch" and the Politicization of Attractiveness

By Sesali Bowen | October 18, 2021

Finding Freedom from the Chokehold of Modern Capitalism in <em>Nomadland</em>

Finding Freedom from the Chokehold of Modern Capitalism in Nomadland

Sara Zarr on the Allure of a Minimalist Life

By Sara Zarr | October 15, 2021

The Time Jim Morrison Was Arrested Onstage in the Middle of a Show

The Time Jim Morrison Was Arrested Onstage in the Middle of a Show

Former Doors Bandmember Robby Krieger Remembers the Myth-Making Moment

By Robby Krieger | October 15, 2021

“The Border Crossed Us.” Beth Alvarado on Writing About the Borderlands

“The Border Crossed Us.” Beth Alvarado on Writing About the Borderlands

In Conversation with G. P. Gottlieb on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | October 15, 2021

An Essay About Tiny, Spectacular Futures Written a Week or So After a Very Damning IPCC Climate Report

An Essay About Tiny, Spectacular Futures Written a Week or So After a Very Damning IPCC Climate Report

In Which Lucas Mann Considers the Lives to Come

By Lucas Mann | October 14, 2021

Searching for the Elusive Sound of Silence in the Olympic Peninsula’s Hoh Rain Forest

Searching for the Elusive Sound of Silence in the Olympic Peninsula’s Hoh Rain Forest

Phillip Hurst on the Quest for Inner Peace in the Wake of His Father’s Conservative Ideology

By Phillip Hurst | October 14, 2021

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Georgina Pazcoguin on Patriarchy in the Ballet

By Book Dreams | October 14, 2021

Hanif Abdurraqib on What It Was Like to Work at a Chain Bookstore

By Hanif Abdurraqib | October 13, 2021

Stanley Tucci Shares His Grandmother’s Famous Tomato Sauce Recipe

By Stanley Tucci | October 13, 2021

How NOW Attempted to Exclude the Third Woman’s Alliance From Feminist History

How NOW Attempted to Exclude the Third Woman’s Alliance From Feminist History

Patricia Romney on the Women's Strike for Equality
and Racism Within Feminism

By Patricia Romney | October 13, 2021

Planning for the End of the World (Or: Hopelessness as Superstition)

Planning for the End of the World (Or: Hopelessness as Superstition)

Bethany Ball is a Little Preoccupied with Complete and Universal Devastation

By Bethany Ball | October 12, 2021

Joshua Bennett on Fatherhood: “We Do Not Live Forever. But We Do Live On.”

Joshua Bennett on Fatherhood: “We Do Not Live Forever. But We Do Live On.”

For the Latest Issue of Freeman’s

By Joshua Bennett | October 12, 2021

The Grief of Displacement: On Being a Child in a Refugee Camp

The Grief of Displacement: On Being a Child in a Refugee Camp

Mondiant Dogon Considers the Experience of Collective Suffering

By Mondiant Dogon with Jenna Krajeski | October 12, 2021

The Myth of True Love Hurts Us All—Especially Women

The Myth of True Love Hurts Us All—Especially Women

Jen Winston on the True Love Industrial Complex and the Rejuvenating Power of Queerness

By Jen Winston | October 8, 2021

The Story Behind <em>The Snake Pit</em>, Mary Jane Ward’s Dark Comic Masterpiece

The Story Behind The Snake Pit, Mary Jane Ward’s Dark Comic Masterpiece

Larry Lockridge on His Cousin’s Novel and His Family’s History of Mental Illness and Literary Talent

By Larry Lockridge | October 8, 2021

Disgust: On the Uses and Abuses of the Most Difficult Emotion

Disgust: On the Uses and Abuses of the Most Difficult Emotion

Stephanie Grant Unpacks the Categories of Our Revulsion

By Stephanie Grant | October 7, 2021

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