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The Saturday Shift

I signed up for junior year abroad and left California with little money on the pretext of studying literature and art, but traveling for...

Nevermore

This trail also led me to conclude, firstly, that so many things remain quietly connected, and secondly, that history is the unceasing attempt to...

Relationship, Redacted

For as long as I can remember, you reminisced. About life during World War II, about seeing Sinatra with your friends at the Brooklyn...

The Truth’s The Truth

The Myth As a child, I was told that all four of my grandparents died before I was born. Stories prevailed: Bubbe Faygie, on Mom’s...

Training Bras to Hot Flashes: Judy Blume’s Timeless Wisdom on Faith and Growing Up

MOVIE REVIEW Growing up as a Muslim-Jewish girl in an interfaith family in the 1980s, I felt like an outsider in a world that didn’t...

Navalny, Poetry, and Truth

On the morning I heard that the Russian political activist, Alexei Navalny, had died in a Siberian prison, I was mournful but not surprised. “So...

One Good Horse

Author's Note: "One Good Horse" is a nostalgic piece of creative nonfiction, told in a first-person narrative and stylized in the voice of an...

Joy

With the pretense of looking around the interior, Joy Sweetland turns away to hide how she curls her fingers properly and types on her...

What’s Left Unsaid

If there’s something you need, let me see it in a dream. Let it be covered in sequins, high-kicking its way to fame. Let it jump out like...

Sightings

Pause

The Adjunct

Advice

Ask Annie: How Writers Should Read

Writers, especially those just starting out, should read omnivorously, insatiably, constantly, selfishly, and slowly. So slowly that the flow and rhythms of the prose...

Further Reading