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Dumpster Chicken

Oriana Reilly -
1.    I remember eating dumpster chicken when I was 19. I had just finished my freshman year of college and was playing house...

Field Notes

Nevermore

Cathy Schen -
This trail also led me to conclude, firstly, that so many things remain quietly connected, and secondly, that history is the unceasing attempt to...

Generations

Letting Go: The History of New York City

Jenny Moye -
“Don’t worry about it, New York City makes a lot of people cry,” so says my student, Laura. But still I wonder — why...

In Sickness and In Health

Backtalk

Anne Kenner -
In the 1960’s, Alice Kramden was my television hero for standing up to her loser husband on The Honeymooners. “One of these days, Alice,” Ralph...

Reviews

Beyoncé Sings Motherhood

Anri Wheeler -
MUSIC REVIEW The day of the BeyHive presale for Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour (open to members of her official fanclub), I was sitting at my...

The Sounding Board

Navalny, Poetry, and Truth

Linda Strange -
On the morning I heard that the Russian political activist, Alexei Navalny, had died in a Siberian prison, I was mournful but not surprised. “So...

Essay & Memoir

Teaching in the Times of Genocide

Nayiri Baboudjian Bouchakjian -
September 27, 2024. Beirut. We have already lost one of our students. No. We have not lost him. He was killed. Murdered. Yes. Murdered in Beirut....

Life is Sweet in the Belly of the Beast

Lorena Hernández Leonard -

Telling Secrets

Bethany Wiersma -

The Silent Ones

Nina Gilden Seavey -

Nothing Person, 1970s

Bobbie Wayne -

Fiction

The Dock

Ben Carter Olcott -
“You’re such a patient man,” my Lizzie would tell me, sometimes with a watery fondness that made me feel like my life was worth...

Maybe the Sun and Ten Years After 16

Francine Witte -

Friedman at the Reins

Mathew Goldberg -

The Puma Way

Susan Fox -

Keep the Change

Joseph Moldover -

Poetry

Like some animal

Eben Bein -
that must gnaw off its leg to escape a trap,the trap being the version of you I carry —a committed method actor, Mom,her lines...

It Could Be Lovely

Emma Renee Goss -

Gym Class

Denise Bergman -

How I See You

Jonathan B. Aibel -

There Are Birds That Move Through Time

Paul Ilechko -

Advice

Advice

Notes From a Veteran Querier

Deborah Norkin -
If you’ve written a book and want to publish through a traditional publisher, you’ll need a literary agent and to get one, you’ll need...

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