EssayLives

Our Last Days in Country

By Curtis J. Graham November 29, 2018

A young Marine on being eighteen and deployed a few miles from the D.M.Z., meeting girls and waiting for ghosts.

Asia & OceaniaConflictTravel & AdventureUSA

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How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found

By Molly McGinnis November 23, 2018

I wrote this down in my notebook, beside the drawings. Life underground = too loud.

Family & Relationships

EssayPhotography

A Visit to the Border

By Francine Prose, with photographs by Judy Linn November 19, 2018

A trip to the border—and the bridge that connects Brownsville, Texas with Matamoros, Mexico—remembered in words in images.

AmericasPoliticsUSA

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Listening for Ghost-Voices

By Anita Roy November 9, 2018

A novel borne out of an earthquake, a departed friend, and a translation from which lost voices rise.

Arts & CultureGenderSex

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In Lagos, Space For My Thoughts To Fly

By Allyn Gaestel November 2, 2018

On nomadism, toxicity, and the question of home.

AfricaTravel & Adventure

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When a Scar Is a Choice

By Charlee Dyroff October 12, 2018

A former athlete reflects on the physical reminders of her years on the court.

Bodies & Nature

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The Franz Kafka Marriage Manual for Young Ladies

By Rebecca Schuman September 25, 2018

What to do with the art of a man more monstrous than the monster he created?

Arts & CultureLit World

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The Uneasy Yoke

By Blair Hurley September 11, 2018

Would the world be better off, as my father sometimes wondered, completely free from religion? Would I be?

Religion

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Russian Reversal: Performing Class and Power on Victory Day

By Roy Scranton July 16, 2018

The ways that Moscow commemorates victory over Nazi Germany bear a striking resemblance to the U.S.

ConflictHistory

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At the County Fair, a Fantasy of Whiteness

By Benjamin Tausig June 11, 2018

In Ohio, efforts to wipe the Confederate flag from local fairs have been met with a powerful silence.

RaceUSA

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Some Other I Before Me

By Joseph Osmundson May 21, 2018

On books as mentors for those of us who grew up in the wake of HIV/AIDS.

Lit World