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The Problem with My Dachshund

Fiction by Rachel Swirsky
I shouldn’t leave her alone in the trailer with the dachshund when she’s just threatened to kill him, but I can’t stay; I just can’t. I push past her, out the door, keys still in hand, and start to drive.
Fiction Family & Relationships
Commentary

Anatomy of a Successful Campus Talk

By Aaron R. Hanlon
The real threat to free speech on campus isn't what you think.
EducationPolitics
Essay

What the Doctor Ordered

By Margaret Wardlaw
Caring for a dying patient, a pediatrician wrestles with questions of suffering and salvation.
Bodies & NatureHealth
Poetry

Portrait of a Boy with Grief

Poetry by Wale Ayinla
you will open your wounds / and make them a garden
Arts & CultureFamily & Relationships
Review

Everything Hiding the Secret of Its Taste

By Francesca Giacco
Marie NDiaye’s new novel, The Cheffe, is an ode to wasted love.
Arts & CultureLit World
Interview

Lilly Dancyger: There Are So Many Different Ways to Be Angry

By Jane Ratcliffe
The editor of Burn It Down talks about the stabilizing benefits of women’s anger, the slow pace of change, and why it’s important to take up space on the subway.
GenderLit World
Essay

Coming into Bloom

By DJ Cashmere
Finding love and making peace with impermanence, with a little help from some sunflowers.
Bodies & NatureFamily & Relationships
Interview

Robert Gipe: A Cure for Despair

By Graham Oliver
The author and activist on gallows humor, the need to tell stories, and helping communities thrive.
Arts & CultureClassUSA
Poetry

Snow Hare

Poetry by Alycia Pirmohamed
you know how to pull down a tree / with only your teeth
Bodies & Nature
Shannon Pufahl, (c) Shay O'Brien
Interview

Shannon Pufahl: Queering the Western

By Mickie Meinhardt
A slow-burning epic, On Swift Horses paints a new picture of our American mythology.
GenderLit World
Fiction

Gah Men

Fiction by Rachel Heng
The Gah Men were from the island. They were at once of the people, but not the people. The Gah Men used their Oxbridge training on one hand, earnest rabble-rousing speeches on the other, to broker a deal with the Ang Mohs.
Family & RelationshipsGovernmentPolitics
Essay

Artist in Residence

By Lawrence Levi
What I learned—and didn’t—from living with a jazz legend.
Arts & Culture
Interview

Rene Denfeld: What Happens After the Trauma

By Jane Ratcliffe
The novelist on writing as activism, mislabeling monsters, and the healing power of imagination.
Family & RelationshipsJustice
Interview

Ben Fama: “Life begins once its valorization ends.”

By KrisAnne Madaus
The poet talks about his latest book, the economic forces at work behind social media, and the stuffed animals in his life.
Miscellaneous Files Lit World
Essay

Turning, Unfolding, Passing Through

By Ellen Wayland-Smith
“Past their prime,” my mother says, shaking her head at pears forgotten on the kitchen counter, turning to rot.
Bodies & NatureFamily & Relationships
Fiction

Dagstuhl

Fiction by Stefani Nellen
She must have fallen asleep after all, in these first weeks, and the boy was gone. The baby in the car was an imposter. Like she was.
Family & Relationships
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