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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.

Writing What You Know (Or Don't): On Transparent and Orange is the New Black

Jenji Kohan of Orange is the New Black and Jill Soloway of Transparent both see the value in open, inclusive writers' rooms—though maybe not for the same reasons.

The Gun As A Karmic Boomerang

Traveling the countryside of the world's second-poorest nation: another in a series of dispatches from the Central African Republic.

The Hero We Need

Wonder Woman, the creation of a polymathic polygamist, wasn't just ahead of her time—as Jill Lepore's new book The Secret History of Wonder Woman shows, she might have been ahead of ours, too.

Next to Godliness

Karen Armstrong's Fields of Blood touches on the political roots of yoga in India. What is yoga now, and who has it been for?