Year in Review

The Year in Dinner

On keeping your loved ones fed, whether they like it or not.

'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.

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?

2014 Is Not A List

On the insufficiency of numbers, black metal turned aggressively queer and danceable, and finding that certain brand of black cherry lipstick.