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You’re Putting My Brain Where, Exactly? By Michelle Weber Highlight When you donate your body to science, you don’t get a whole lot of say over what happens to your parts.
Where Your Stuff Goes When You Lose It in Tokyo By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight If you lost your umbrella in Tokyo, don’t worry. It’s probably among the thousands stored inside the Metropolitan Police Department’s six-story lost and found center.
Just Another Bugout Behind Bars By Michelle Weber Highlight How and when did prisons become one of the New York’s major providers of mental health care — and can we actually call it “care”?
Frailty, Thy Name Is Immigration Control By Katie Kosma Highlight Quoting Shakespeare isn’t new, but using it in court to fight Trump’s immigration control is.
Balancing the Books By Sari Botton Highlight The Paris Review launches a monthly column to shine light on women writers from the past who have been under-recognized.
Lettuce Try to Grow Dwarf Tomatoes Next By Krista Stevens Highlight When we all eventually move to Mars, we’re going to need to know how to grow our own veggies. NASA’s working on the science of farming in space.
Viv Albertine on Dating Again in Her 50s By Longreads Feature In my teens I was upset that I was too young to go out with any of the boys in my favorite bands. Now they’re all with women who weren’t even born when I had that thought.
Sex Workers vs. The Internet By Rick Paulas Feature Since the dawn of the internet, online platforms have allowed clients to take advantage of sex workers. Now, they’re fighting back.
Dorothy Allison on how Shame Defines Class By Krista Stevens Highlight “What seemed to me life-saving was that I couldn’t lie. I couldn’t put a candy-coated gloss on anything.”
Queens of Infamy: Anne Boleyn By Anne Thériault Feature In Tudor England’s big-sleeved game of thrones, winning and dying were not mutually exclusive.
Meet the New Mormons By Sarah Scoles Feature Is it possible to be queer, lefty, and a Latter-Day Saint? After leaving the church, Sarah Scoles sets out to understand liberal Mormons.
The Difference Between Being Broke and Being Poor By Erynn Brook Feature It’s a recognition that comes in the aisle of a grocery store.
When ‘The Real World’ Gave Up on Reality By Rebecca Schuman Feature The true story of the exact moment in the mid-Nineties when reality television morphed from its best self to its worst.
Tax-Free Storage Wars By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Feature Arcis is a new art storage facility in Harlem that offers its clients a Foreign Trade Zone. But are they selling the art world a luxury tax haven, or just banking on confusion?
A Chance to Rewrite History: The Women Fighters of the Tamil Tigers By Longreads Feature How during a brutal, 25-year civil war in Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers failed the women soldiers who sacrificed everything to fight for a sovereign state for the Tamil minority.
Viv Albertine on Dating Again in Her 50s By Longreads Feature In my teens I was upset that I was too young to go out with any of the boys in my favorite bands. Now they’re all with women who weren’t even born when I had that thought.
Dorothy Allison on how Shame Defines Class By Krista Stevens Highlight “What seemed to me life-saving was that I couldn’t lie. I couldn’t put a candy-coated gloss on anything.”
Series Exhumes Out-of-Print Books by Black Authors By Danielle Jackson Highlight “The Blackist,” a column for Catapult’s magazine, introduces audiences to out-of-print novels written by black authors.
Ghost Writer: The Story of Patience Worth, the Posthumous Author By Joy Lanzendorfer Feature The most remarkable thing about Patience Worth wasn’t that she was dead. It was that all she wanted to do was write books.
This Month in Books: ‘We Have Nothing to Weigh Our Hearts Against’ By Dana Snitzky Commentary When I look at this month’s Books Newsletter, all I can think about are borders, crossings, the terrible distances between people who have been separated.
Can This Tech Company’s Digital Border Wall Secure it More Government Defense Contracts? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Looking inside the new tech company who is building a cost-effective digital wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
A Frustrating Year of Reporting on Black Maternal Health By Danielle Jackson Feature Stories of women of color dying of childbirth have dominated headlines — but little has been done to change postpartum care.
How Amazon Exploits Chinese Workers to Crank Out Its Products By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, exploits Chinese workers to manufacture Kindles and smart speakers.
Anthony Bourdain and the Missing Piece By Ian Frisch Feature With magic, the goal is to give someone something they can carry around with them for a while.
Could South Africa’s Drought Help Deconstruct the Divisions of Apartheid? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Cape Town’s drought has turned the once green city brown, but can it help unite the rich and poor and black and white?
A Beginner’s Guide to Fly Fishing With Your Father By Heather Radke Feature It was the place he came to feel wild, and I was ready to trespass into the world of men.
The Cold War and its Fallout By Vincent Czyz Feature A son approaching middle age looks back on a volatile relationship with his father.
Surviving Depression By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary What can you do for a loved one with depression? Sometimes presence can make all the difference in the world.
Ghost Writer: The Story of Patience Worth, the Posthumous Author By Joy Lanzendorfer Feature The most remarkable thing about Patience Worth wasn’t that she was dead. It was that all she wanted to do was write books.
Wrestling With My Father By Brian Gresko Feature Brian Gresko considers the lingering consequences when the only touches between father and son are abusive ones.