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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.

Bleak Chic

Our books, movies, and television shows are arguably bleaker than ever. What's behind the encroaching, thickening darkness?

A Berlin Diary: Italy Pt. 2

Sholem wades into the swamp before bidding Italy, and us, farewell in the final instalment of A Berlin Diary.

Alone in a Different Reality

In Andrew O'Hagan's The Illuminations, a woman struggles watching her mother enter the early stages of dementia. But can a different reality be a better place to live?

Dry January: A Failure

A cleanse should help you cherish the glory of a healthy body. But what if it just makes you fixate on the toxins you can't quite rid yourself of?

'I Don't Think We Remember it the Same Way'

Ava DuVernay's Selma is more analytical than the average biopic—a negotiation between complex and intersecting histories, rather than a simple dramatic restaging.