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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.

'You People Are So Patient'

2014 felt like a long, cruel object lesson in disappointment. Should we really have expected better?

The Year In Being Less of a Liar

On finally telling your parents you have romantic feelings for a fellow adult.

'One of the Most Ridiculous Things That Has Ever Occurred in the History of the United States'

In this excerpt from Red Heat, Alex von Tunzelmann looks at how the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion changed the balance of power during the Cold War.

The Year in Catching Up

On clearing out your cultural backlog, one Breaking Bad binge-watch at a time.

How the Essay Was Won And Where It Got Us

From Leslie Jamison to Roxane Gay to Charles D'Ambrosio, 2014 was a perhaps uncommonly good year for essays. How did we get here?

The Year in Being an Engaged Person and Nothing Else

On the milestones that consume our identities.