Readings

The First Time I Cried on the Q

The human body is a work of splendor and misery. 

My First Baseball Game

Finding myself in a sport that always felt connected to my father's rage and regret.

Understanding the Stars

On the shared origins of two seemingly incongruent disciplines and the language we use to explain our place in the universe.

'If It Was Fiction It Would Be a Little on the Nose': An Interview with Nicole Chung

The author of All You Can Ever Know on family secrets, nature versus nurture, and Kristi Yamaguchi.

Out of the Dark

Despite decades of contributions to psychedelic science, women have long been marginalized in the field. That's starting to change. 

'I'm Naturally Out of Sync with the World': An Interview with Raziel Reid

The author of Kens on the power of satire, rituals of rejection, and imagining Christian Slater. 

An Answer I Can't Give My Daughters

I don’t want to test my children for genetic illness to subvert their autonomy, but to allow them to fully exert it. And though I have the means, I can't quite find the will. 

'I Want to Get There Before Things Disappear': An Interview with Sarah Weinman

The author of The Real Lolita on doppelgangers, the responsibilities of true crime reporting and fictionalizing people's pain. 

The Bells That Still Can Ring

On seasons of grief and change, in Montreal and everywhere else.

Looking For Home in the Palestinian Diaspora

Talking to poets abroad about their complicated, sometimes fractured relationships with their homeland.