Traces of Us
who could pass up even the slimmest chance to reunite after life, death, and a million miles of empty space?
Atavistacular
By Marlee Jane Ward The elevator dings behind me and Curve Cilla Pando-Deng steps off on a pair of familiar creamsicle gams. Her tumble-hair is yellow and she’s got a…
Strangers No More — Paper Darts
I was riding home on the train when a stranger sat down across from me. He looked at me for a long time before speaking. “I have a proposition for…
Take Pills and Wait for Hips | Anya DeNiro
There are boulders of grief flying off your shoulders.
I Saw “Mother!” So You Don’t Have To
Mother! is what happens when a dude has an idea he thinks is brilliant and no one checks him on it.
After Harvey, Houston residents will deal with mosquitoes, polluted water, mold, and disease.
As floodwaters peak and recede over the coming weeks, there will be lots of standing water for disease-transmitting mosquitoes to breed and multiply, the Atlantic reports. West Nile virus has…
How to Write About Your Ancestral Village
You buy a one-way ticket to Beijing, and tell your mother you are traveling alone to figure out if China might be the answer.
Dan, Fran Keller to get $3.4 million in ‘satanic day care’ case
Dan and Fran Keller, who spent more than 21 years in prison after they were accused of sexually abusing children during supposed satanic rituals at their South Austin day care…
Writing in Someone Else’s World
I stumbled on a high-pay, low-prestige way to enter the publishing world—and overcame my reservations to make the most of the opportunity. My first book was not what I dreamed…
A Chat With Mimi Pond on the Service Industry, Cocaine, and Writing the First Episode of The Simpsons
In the early 1980s, Mimi Pond’s work was everywhere. The cartoonist and illustrator was regularly published in The National Lampoon, The Village Voice, The New York Times, and Seventeen magazines;…