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What If We Saved Ourselves?
Brian Lin maps out the terrain of racial struggle in the literary world.
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca
This Unhallowed Ground
Winthrop Rodgers travels to Kurdistan’s historic battlefields and reflects on our relationship to these conflict zones.
Nil by Mouth
I have filled it with many things throughout the years: solitude and stitches, bouquets and bruises, rings and regret. But still, I am a skinny girl.
One Woman’s Century
Evan Pheiffer offers a portrait of his grandmother, Jayne, whose life spanned a tumultuous century.
The Storefront (place)
An excerpt from a memoir in progress about Jewish book culture in Los Angeles.
Beheaded
As a young woman, I fell in love with a man who owned a machete. He terrorized me for over a year. I have no doubt he would have killed me if I had stayed.
The Life Ironic: The Pricks of Science and Art
A Wes Anderson devotee reminds the author of his young self and the sorts of sensibilities (science- and art-related) for which others have to pay.
Unmaking California’s Central Valley
Water piped in from elsewhere has performed a peculiar kind of magic in California’s Central Valley, writes Sayd Randle. That magic is now dimming.
A Sprawling Study Tracks the Global State of LGBT People
Michael Nava reviews Mark Gevisser’s “The Pink Line,” a study of LGBTQ struggles for civil rights across the world.
Christmas in October
Nancy Conyers on coming out during the holiday season.
Beverly Hills Riot
Antonia Hitchens on her time with the people who love Trump.
From Out of Control to Contrology: Notes on Sex, Body, and the Pandemic
On finding harmony during a pandemic.
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