20+ hour, 30+ min ago  (230+ words) This year, 2026, is the 250th anniversary of American independence. This 4th of July will be a bombastic celebration of an independence that came at an unbearably high cost for the original stewards of this land. We cannot surrender to patriotism without context,…...

21+ hour, 56+ min ago  (152+ words) Roxane Gay's writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, Mc Sweeney's, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (322+ words) Over the course of Semana Santa, I corresponded over email with El'as, a multidisciplinary artist of Cuban and Syrian descent based in Chicago. We spoke about the role of faith in his character's lives, mapping out queer landscapes in novels,…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (100+ words) Nidhi Chanani is an award-winning author and illustrator. Her graphic novels include Pashmina, Jukebox the Shark Princess series and the Super Boba Cafe series. She also creates picture books. Some of her titles are I will be fierce, Strong, Binny's…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1924+ words) When he and I spoke over video, Glenn Dixon seemed delighted to discuss how Scout relates to the heroes in the books of his own childhood. With its childlike protagonist who ultimately performs an act of great bravery, the book…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (799+ words) Between 2003 and 2009 I was a South Side boxer and Chicago Golden Gloves champion. It's a detail about me so idiosyncratic, so at odds with my wispy appearance and my cerebral mien, that it surprises me too when I think about…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (209+ words) These were the years just before the Wars of Religion, and Felix witnessed a truly staggering number of executions, roughly half of them religious in nature, the persecution of Protestants and heretics. Body parts were cut off before or after…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (64+ words) Jordan Bolden Majewski is a Black queer poet and essayist living in the Bay Area. Her work explores the embodied experience of Black motherhood in its full spectrum" the many dangers, surprises, and joys. She received an MFA in Poetry…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (403+ words) Father's Day, in many ways, has functioned as the most confusing day of the year for me because I both felt love from a man who fathered me and rejection from a man who was my father. The complexity of…...

2+ week, 9+ min ago  (1263+ words) Anna Hogeland is the author of novels The Long Answer (Riverhead Books) and Wild Aster (forthcoming from Bloomsbury). She's a psychotherapist in private practice, with an MSW from Smith College School for Social Work and an MFA from UC Irvine....