Do these people not know that now is now is now is NOW?| Common Reader
They feared the olive trees — the trees that know, more than anyone, who the true owners of this land are.| Vox Populi
Photo Illustration: Russ Smith • Photos: Volosina via Getty Images; Isabelle Rozenbaum via Getty Images, ImagePixel via Getty Images; Glow Images via Getty Images; Lisbeth Hjort via Getty Images Chefs share their top tips for mastering the famously fussy egg dish. The post How to Make a Mean French Omelet—Straight From the Pros appeared first on Saveur.| Saveur
A student reflects on her use of Snapchat voice notes to stay in touch with her best friend when they lived in different cities and how it played a role in her move to Philadelphia.| The Temple News
“Say something. Come on. Make it sound thoughtful, deep, but not too strong or too long.” This is the voice in my head every time I sit in a group discussion. While others bounce ideas around like beach balls, messy, loud, full of laughter, I sit there, rehearsing my opening line like a diplomat, making […] The post The Asian Erasure Trap, or How Being the “Model Minority” Makes Everyone Feel Safer appeared first on Common Reader.| Common Reader
Author’s note: As I begin my work this year as a Heartland Journalism Fellow, this is the kind of story I want to tell. Stories that do not begin and end with the struggle of migrant life, but that linger on the acts of resistance, care, and joy that happen in between the cracks. Stories […] The post Fugitive Kindness and the Joy of the Migrants appeared first on Common Reader.| Common Reader
It was the kind of area where my incomplete understanding, which should mean comedy, became not tragedy, not emptiness or absence, but presence without meaning.| Common Reader
Nurcan Baysal on Kurdish language, culture and identity. Translated by Nazım Dikbas.| PEN Transmissions
Magdalena Blažević on the massacre of Kiseljak.| PEN Transmissions
Losing both parents left me furious—at family, at the medical system, at myself. Here's what I learned from it. The post 4 Ways That Grief Rage Taught Me About Self-Preservation and Healing appeared first on Modern Loss.| Modern Loss
Grieving and mothering changed how I hold joy, pain, and memory—all at the same time. The post Why I Stopped Trying to Cherish Every Moment appeared first on Modern Loss.| Modern Loss
Thank you for the lyrics that somehow understood my soul and this seemingly impossible grief journey. The post Dear Noah Kahan, ‘Godlight’ Helped Me Survive Perinatal Loss appeared first on Modern Loss.| Modern Loss
Long after her death, I used the tools of journalism to reckon with memory, regret, and love. The post Writing the Story My Mother Never Got to Tell appeared first on Modern Loss.| Modern Loss
What it felt like to watch her slow, surreal demise during a slow, surreal moment in the world. The post My Landlord Died From Cancer While We Sheltered In Place Together appeared first on Modern Loss.| Modern Loss
I always struggled to identify with my son's ADHD – until my muddled mind schooled me after his sudden death.| Modern Loss
From the mouth down to the gut, here’s what science has to say about bad breath—and how to treat it from the inside out.| Saveur
Jordan Aitcheson-Labarr on viewing a turbulent world through Hip Hop| PEN Transmissions
Sana – a pseudonym – writes from Iran.| PEN Transmissions
Kamran Sajid on Panjabi folk music| PEN Transmissions
The foreman led me into a cavernous room that took up most of the ground floor, where three huge machines unspooled 16-ton rolls of tin plate into sheets to be turned into cans. The machines resemb…| Vox Populi
On International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Belarus, Nobel Laureate Ales Bialiatski on letters, solidarity, and compassion. Translated by Valzhyna Mort.| PEN Transmissions
Susannah Dickey on the true crime media engine, Palestine, grief and the PEN Heaney Prize.| PEN Transmissions
Tetyana Teren on time in London with Victoria Amelina. Translated by Larissa Babij.| PEN Transmissions
AJ Layla on legacy and creative instinct.| PEN Transmissions
Adèle Oliver on drill, resistance, and the Art Not Evidence campaign.| PEN Transmissions
Ahmad Bassiouny writes from Gaza. Translated by Ibrahim Fawzy.| PEN Transmissions
I don’t know what happened, not really. My memories reveal, as if through curtains slightly opened, only a blurred something outside a greasy window that I can’t make out, or even ascribe a shape to. But something was, is, there, something dark and menacing and fixed on me.| Popula
THIS IS AN essay in speculative theology. In it I explore an idea — the general Mormon expectation of future polygamy — that has important religious and moral implications but about which there is little definite scriptural direction and no clear official doctrine. I attempt here, in the spirit of a venerable tradition in Mormon […]|
…. For a moment Abijah felt stunned; in this, his first real emergency, he had almost forgotten God! He turned to Brother Tuckett. Clory, sitting on a boulder near-by, wondered at the sudden purpose in Brother Tuckett’s movements. What were they going to do? And then she saw Brother Tuckett appear with the bottle of […]|
WHEN I WAS quite young, I had two profound spiritual experiences, more like encounters, that became the grounding realities of my life. One convinced me of the personal reality of the Savior and that what he most fundamentally requires of us is total consecration of our means, our time, and our talents in service to […]|
IT MIGHT HAVE been 1986, because Easter came in March and I was on my way to Montreal. But I went to see Dustin Hoffman in The Death of a Salesman (bought a ticket at the last minute from a scalper), so it must have been two years earlier on my way to Boston. When I […]|
Edgar to Gloucester in King Lear: Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. June 1982 I grew up in a safe valley. The years five through twelve, when we are most sensuously attached to the landscape and when, I think, the foundations of identity are firmly laid, I lived in gardens […]|
