Is the Quest for an Ethical Reality Show Doomed?
Eric Thurm on UnREAL, The Bachelor, and Vanderpump Rules
What I Didn’t Know About Life, Marriage, and Working on the Line
Steve Edwards on Finding Redemption as a Young Writer
The Onstage Origins of Van Morrison’s Legendary Astral Weeks
Boston, the Summer of 1968, Screaming Teenagers...
Reading Across America: Chicago’s Artist Lounge Open Mic
Cultivating a Literary Tradition on the South Side and Beyond
10 Books to Read by Living Women (Instead of These 10 by Dead Men)
a) It's Women's History Month b) They're Better c) Avoid the Male Glance
I Call Your Name Whenever I Can: The Letters of Pat Parker and Audre Lorde
"Beware Feeling You’re Not Good Enough to Deserve It"
The Break
Katherena Vermette
“Ziggy is fucking frozen all the way through by the time they finally find the party, by the time she and Emily get the nerve to open the door to the old rundown house that thumps with bass and rattles with people.”
Wilder Things: Modern Life Among the Foxes and Coyotes
From London to Arlington, Investigating the Urban Wilderness
The Transcendent Humanity of the Worst Cruise I Have Ever Taken
Ramona Ausubel Tries—and Fails—To Find Her Ancestral Sealegs
Why Do Writers Keep Multiple Copies of Books Around?
Melissa Febos, Carmen Maria Machado, and More on Their Beloved Editions
It’s Not Easy Running a Retirement Home for Old Dancing Bears
Small-Town Bulgarians Wonder Why the Bears Get Strawberries
100 Covers of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude
Iconic Covers, from 1967 to Today
Whiskey & Ribbons
Leesa Cross-Smith
“Frances was fucking her heart out on top of me. Cursing, wild-eyed. This was the picture I had in mind whenever anyone would ask me why we were still together. This is why we’re still together.”
Love
Hanne Ørstavik, Trans. by Martin Aitken
“In his school bag is a book of raffle tickets for the sports club. When he’s finished his dinner he’ll go around the houses he can see in the photo to sell some tickets.”
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