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In the Land of Fiction and Fake News

By Elizabeth Mitchell
A lie is a fiction made up to take away someone else’s power.
Essay Lit WorldPolitics
Essay

Lost for Words

By Stewart L. Sinclair
It’s impossible to agree to disagree with someone when there is no mutually agreed upon reality.
PoliticsUSA
Poetry

Poem About Human Habits of Consumption That Begins with Contemplating the Walnut in My Yard

Poetry by Felicia Zamora
Who parted / your shell, in wedge & tear?
Bodies & Nature
Interview

Back Draft: Lisa Dillman

By Ben Purkert and Lisa Dillman
The translator on selecting her subjects, discovering the work of Andrés Barba, and the dangers of cultural hegemony.
Back Draft Arts & CultureLit World
Essay

Jason the Heat Guy

By Lulu Miller
The heat guy considers what to do with us, the frozen lesbians on the little dead-end street. If God cut off our heat, who is he to intervene?
Family & RelationshipsGenderPolitics
Essay

Next!

By Barclay Bram
A former model wonders what made him wait in one casting line after another, even when he knew he wasn’t going to get the job.
Clothes, Interrupted Arts & CultureLabor
Review

Like Hell

By DJ Cashmere
Relating their experiences of postpartum psychosis, two writers tap into broader truths about parenting and fear.
GenderLit World
Interview

Alistair Ian Blyth: Translating Post-Soviet Moldova

By Alicia Kennedy
Iulian Ciocan’s translator on bringing the Moldovan writer to a global audience.
Lit World
Essay

The Grief Artist

By Traci Brimhall
In the wake of a loss comes the urge to create.
Bodies & NatureFamily & Relationships
Essay

St. Scholastica

By Keside Anosike
Inside these sounds, she’d said, people’s lives either became richer than what they usually were, like fruits ripened by good weather, or fell flat, like dry leaves.
Clothes, Interrupted Arts & CultureFamily & Relationships
Essay

Like Clockwork

By Caroline Evans
In the early 20th century, the standardization of international time transformed fashion and commerce.
Clothes, Interrupted History
Photography

Lagos Still Moves

Photographs by Dafe Oboro, with text by Innanoshe R.A.
In this visual essay, photographer Dafe Oboro reminisces about the sartorial traditions his generation of Nigerians grew up with.
Clothes, Interrupted
Essay

How Enslaved People Helped Shape Fashion History

By Jonathan Michael Square
Their unpaid labor created countless garments, but they were also trendsetters on their own terms.
Clothes, Interrupted
Lives

Shareef

By Mahreen Sohail
Over time and across geographies, clothes underscore a writer's changing relationship to her appearance, her family, and her grief.
Clothes, Interrupted Family & Relationships
Commentary

Future Fashions: The Imagination

By K-Ming Chang
I spent every night lying on the lower bunk of our bunk bed, looking up at the yellowed bottom of my brother’s mattress, crafting a future self in his shadow.
Clothes, Interrupted
Commentary

Future Fashions: The Pår

By Xiaowei Wang
You could walk around in your comfortable gray flannel everyday, yet others would see an outfit tailored to their imaginings.
Clothes, Interrupted
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