John West’s Lessons and Carols is a lyric memoir of recovery, parenting, loss, and hope, which is also periodically quite…
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Even data migrates now. Data migration and regular migration—all searching for a new home, hoping to remain useful but also…
Aisha Abdel Gawad’s debut, Between Two Moons, is a striking novel about being an immigrant and Muslim in post-9/11 America,…
There’s something inherently magical about reading in the summer. Perhaps it dates back to those formative elementary school days of…
Searching for truth, whether at personal level or on a larger scale, has been the subject of many different narratives.…
Teaching My Son to Swim While I Drown Megan Kamalei Kakimoto Share article Madwomen by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto My son,…
Jenn Shapland has thin skin, literally. Thin Skin uses her medical diagnosis as a prism to examine the thinning of…
For me, the term “mad scientist” brings to mind images of bubbling beakers filled with neon liquids; elongated, menacing silhouettes;…
It was the kind of summer night we’d been craving all week. Easy conversation, endless beers, suburban life drifting on…
Tax Incentives for the Brokenhearted Account Because I was the one to end it, and so soon, I offered to…
Why is it that, in an era of convenience and online shopping, we still go out of our way to…
In 2005, during the dawn of reality television and before social media transformed these experiments into income-generators for future influencers,…
Alexandria, 1934. The wedding of the author’s grandparents, Allegra (Freja) Berdugo and Armand (Abdu) Dayan.What of Egypt is left in…
There is something disconcerting about reading the unpublished poems of a great and passed poet such as Etheridge Knight. After…
Author’s Note: I have chosen to publish this essay pseudonymously to prevent retribution from my ex-husband – a very real…
It’s the year 2014, and the sounds of “Dark Horse” by Katy Perry echo through your room as you slip…
Sinéad O’Connor Was Right All Along The Shape of Progress O Sinéad—you are dead & the headlines beside you are…
In the following tribute, Yousef Khanfar pens a letter to the eminent scholar Salma Khadra Jayyusi, laureate of the 2021…