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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.

The Lost Lives of Old Families

The most privileged among us take the history of their family names for granted. For many, we're lucky to find a foothold even in fiction.

The Little Nepal in My Mind

After moving to Canada from Kathmandu, the last thing I wanted was the claustrophobia of an immigrant enclave. Then came the earthquake.

'I Don’t Think The Truth Is Totally Unknowable': An Interview with Richard Beck

The author of We Believe the Children on the 1984 McMartin Preschool sexual abuse case, the history of moral panic, and why we prioritize certain types of abuse.

The Revolutionary Non-Compliance of Bitch Planet

Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro's comic series is set in a wholly unrecognizable dystopian universe in which women are punished for being themselves. (Wait a second...)

Page Four: A Dalí Journal

Salvador Dali writes like he paints and paints like he writes; he is lyrical in his natural settings, and deeply symbolic. If only his diaries were all available in translation.

Hail, Mary

I was excited to exist as a non-religious writer, free of the idea that my words might “save” someone. Which is why I was surprised when, recently, I realized I was acting like a religious person.