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A Dreamer of Worlds: Anna Badkhen Explores Ethiopa (and the Etymologies of Maps)

A Dreamer of Worlds: Anna Badkhen Explores Ethiopa (and the Etymologies of Maps)

“What each map always implies is the observer, you.”

By Anna Badkhen | October 24, 2022

Why Is Flying So Miserable These Days? And Was It Ever That Glamorous?

Why Is Flying So Miserable These Days? And Was It Ever That Glamorous?

Ann Hood in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 24, 2022

The Grief of Publishing a Book Without the Parent Who Inspired You

The Grief of Publishing a Book Without the Parent Who Inspired You

Monica Macansantos on the Words Her Father Awakened

By Monica Macansantos | October 24, 2022

Harold R. Johnson on How We Tell Our Own Stories

Harold R. Johnson on How We Tell Our Own Stories

“We are the stories we are told and we are the stories we tell ourselves.”

By Harold R. Johnson | October 24, 2022

Mary Karr on Navigating Memory While Writing Memoir

Mary Karr on Navigating Memory While Writing Memoir

“A single image can split open the hard seed of the past.”

By Mary Karr | October 21, 2022

The Me in the Screen: Steffan Triplett on Doppelgängers and Doubles, in Horror and Queer Life

The Me in the Screen: Steffan Triplett on Doppelgängers and Doubles, in Horror and Queer Life

“A queer person is used to keeping secrets, telling lies, sectioning off parts of themselves.”

By Steffan Triplett | October 21, 2022

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“I Was a Seventeen-Year-Old Pornographer.” Steven Heller on His Stint as Art Director of the Underground

By Steven Heller | October 21, 2022

Playing with Fear: How Oracle Cards Taught Me To Ask More Honest Questions

By Rita Zoey Chin | October 21, 2022

How Friends and Family Can Support Survivors of Domestic Violence

By Corinne Segal | October 21, 2022

On Writing and Sweating: How a Boutique Fitness Class Fueled My Novel

On Writing and Sweating: How a Boutique Fitness Class Fueled My Novel

Sheila Yasmin Marikar on Body by Simone and the Promise of Transformation

By Sheila Yasmin Marikar | October 20, 2022

How Dick Gregory Learned to Subvert Racist Audiences

How Dick Gregory Learned to Subvert Racist Audiences

“I went all the way back to childhood.”

By Dick Gregory | October 20, 2022

How I Created Community With a Ramones Fan Club

How I Created Community With a Ramones Fan Club

Kid Congo Powers on the Smartest, Dumbest Rock ’n’ Roll Band There Ever Was

By Kid Congo Powers | October 20, 2022

Telling Stories of the Trans Experience is More Important Than Ever

Telling Stories of the Trans Experience is More Important Than Ever

Veronica Esposito on Rhea Ewing’s Fine

By Veronica Esposito | October 19, 2022

Lessons From My Lovely Patients: Facing My Own Cancer Diagnosis as a Veterinary Oncologist

Lessons From My Lovely Patients: Facing My Own Cancer Diagnosis as a Veterinary Oncologist

Renee Alsarraf on the “deep bond that animals have with their human families.”

By Renee Alsarraf | October 19, 2022

Maya-Camille Broussard on Creating a Recipe for Cannabis Justice

Maya-Camille Broussard on Creating a Recipe for Cannabis Justice

Plus, How to Make Peaches + Herb Cobbler with Weed-Infused Butter!

By Maya-Camille Broussard | October 19, 2022

Ross Gay Finds Delight in Nourishing Need, Adult Braces, and Kissing a Very Small Dog One Million Times

Ross Gay Finds Delight in Nourishing Need, Adult Braces, and Kissing a Very Small Dog One Million Times

"I have never kissed a creature so many times, and I have loved and kissed many creatures many times, believe me."

By Ross Gay | October 18, 2022

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