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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.

Inside Scharpling & Wurster's 'Power Pop Pop Pop'

Why the story of a detestable "power pop dictator" may be The Best Show's quintessential bit (or one of them, at least).

The Cult of Work

What is lost to our love of labour?

'Totalitarian Terror Isn't Operating On Your Schedule': An Interview with Jim Shepard

The Book of Aron author on the challenges of implicating Jews in a story about their suffering and the point of fictionalizing the Holocaust. 

Crime Doers 20XX

"But it could lead to a paid position!"

Dreams Are Boring

We attribute divine inspiration to madness, but escaping the cycle of mania for the comfort of a calmer mind doesn't mean abandoning artistic greatness.

What's the Point of Handwriting?

Maybe handwriting is neither a lost art nor an anachronism; perhaps new technology will show there is some useful alchemy left in the way language, the body, and our sense of identity intertwine.