The Surprising Story of Hubert Julian
The man who challenged the CIA and sold weapons to the president of Guatemala
Interview
Anelise Chen: “Then I changed it to third-person clam, and that was exactly how it was meant to be.”
The writer shares a collection of digital fragments that have shaped her practice, including an image depicting cycling exercises, a photo of Kafka’s diaries, and a video of her mother’s first time seeing snow.
Commentary
A Goodbye Memo to Mackenzie Bezos from Husband Jeff as He Transitions to New Love, Alexa
A natural next step in the CEO’s Amazonian evolution.
Essay
V-2 and Saturn V: A Tale of Two Rockets
What does it mean that the same men who built a deadly rocket for the Nazis helped get America to the moon?
Interview
Natasha Trethewey: Finding Her Calling in a Wound That Never Heals
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet on her recently released collection, the connections between personal and historical violence, and how she received her calling.
Fiction
The Woman Who Fed the Dogs
I don’t deserve a medal. I deserve hatred, scorn, poison. People send me letters in which they describe in great detail what they would do to me if they had the chance.
Fiction
The Emperors of Existence
It’s not good if you’re a man, and alone, when others are fucking your kid’s mother. I got on my leather jacket and left. I took a cab all the way down the Corniche, along the Nile.
Fiction
Enacting Africa
“Jambo!” my client greeted me, over-cheerfully.
“Jambo!” I hailed back, slightly accentuating the pitch of my voice to match his high-octane enthusiasm.
Poetry
/ˈməT͟Hər/
We tend to our roles like we tend to a fire, / poking the coals with the blazing tip of an iron.
Video
Presented by SIMA: The Walls
Watch this month's documentary, in which a prison debate team joins forces with college students to discuss gun control, even though some inmates have landed there precisely for firearm-related crimes.
Report
Footsteps in a Marked House: The Complex Role of Women in Pakistan’s Police Force
Women's recruitment into elite commandos, formed in response to post-9/11 terrorism, was not driven by a desire for diversity in the workplace, but by the need to conduct raids and arrest militants without alienating local communities.
Interview
Kiese Laymon: “I Didn’t Want to Be a Silent Survivor of Moral Failure Anymore”
The writer on his memoir, Heavy, and the role of truth-telling and loneliness in artmaking.
