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Lay It Down

People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

The Threshold

The baby had come from a place none of us could remember. Our grandmother was headed there.

Saul Bellow's Last Interview

The story behind the last known interview with the author of Herzog, Ravelstein, and The Adventures of Augie March, with exclusive video.

The Worthy Elephant: On Truman Capote's In Cold Blood

For the fiftieth anniversary of the book's publication, a discussion of craft, veracity and the literary appeal of true crime. 

Early Stories Pt. 2: Body Pods II

"By Monday, the Body Pods poster was gone."

'The Room Shakes With the Weight of My Bitter Laughter': On Homophobia in the Workplace

Two queer journalists discuss bearing the burden of educating their co-workers and dealing with discrimination.

Virginia Woolf's Philosopher of Novelty

Mrs. Dalloway and the promise and problems of empathy.

Didelphis Nuncius

"You want Enlightenment? Well, here. It’s not exactly what you thought."