Adania Shibli on Writing Palestine from the Inside
An Interview with the Author of We Are All Equally Far From Love
Donald Trump Has Made It Hard to Be a New England Patriots Fan
On Questioning the Reasons You Have for Loving a Sports Franchise
What Was Chick Lit? A Brief History From the Inside
Lucinda Rosenfeld Looks Back at a Genre That Deserved Better
10 Great Longform Essays About Football in American Culture
Pre-Superbowl Reading—or a way to avoid it completely
Mike Scalise on His Rare Condition and the Illness Memoir
An Interview with the Author of The Brand New Catastrophe
The Men in My Life
Patricia Bosworth
“Dusk had fallen. The heavens were a deep dark blue, and as I trudged up from the subway, teetering a bit in my high heels, I could hear music streaming down West Twelfth Street. The music was floating out of the open windows of Valerie Bettis’s vast townhouse.”
Totally, Radically Baldwin: Raoul Peck on I Am Not Your Negro
Craig Hubert Interviews the Director about his Oscar-Nominated Documentary
Why We Need More Trans Protagonists for Kids
For Trans Youth, Representation Can be Critical to Survival
Weird and Hilarious Illustrations from Victorian-Era Shakespeare Plays
Swords and fists and clowns and fairies
The Importance of Play: On Finding Joy in your Writing Practice
How to Approach Your Work with Open Hands, Not Closed Fists
Reclaiming Of Mice and Men from Parody
I will name him George, and I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him
Sandra Cisneros: Telling the Truth in Poetry and Prose
On Hybrid Storytelling and Detonating the Bombs of the Heart
The Brand New Catastrophe
Mike Scalise
“Telling a good catastrophe anecdote means becoming a maestro of sympathy. People’s reactions to these kinds of stories usually involve some defense mechanism: a tilting or nodding of the head, a crinkling of the brow, or the low-toned repetition of words and phrases like wow, holy shit, oh no, sounds horrible, or—and this is one to watch out for—I’m just really glad you’re okay.”
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