Depending on your closest inner circle, you have either been quarantining and health screening for a private island trip, or you’ve been at home reading the news of Emily Ratajkowski and Sebastian Bear-McClard’s incoming baby. With EmRata and …
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Married with Two Kids, and Seeking an Abortion in West Virginia
It was the last day of my old life. The third week of October 2017. The year I was forty. Jo was at school. Iris was at daycare. I didn’t know where my husband, Tony, …
In Nigeria, When Will Justice Catch Up With the Present?
Last year, on her way home from a concert in Victoria Island, an affluent area of Lagos, a 25-year-old woman and her then boyfriend were detained by armed members of Nigeria’s controversial police unit, the …
Why You Should Know About Diane di Prima, the Beat Poet Decades Ahead of Her Time
The lineup of marquee-name Beat poets is fairly slim—there’s your Kerouac, your Ginsberg, your William S. Burroughs, along with a host of lesser-known names (Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso, Herbert Hunke). What you won’t find, for …
Twitter Had Plenty of Thoughts About Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court Confirmation
Amy Coney Barrett was officially sworn in as a Supreme Court justice on Monday, just over a week before Election Day, officially creating a 6-3 conservative majority on the court that will be in place …
Your Voting Plan Should Include These 17 Things
We’re a week away from the last day you can vote in the United States. People are researching candidates. They’ve watched the debates (or opted out). Now, they’re mailing in ballots and lining up at …
Emma Kohlmann’s New Exhibition Is an Otherworldly Oasis in the Heart of the City
Within the whitewashed room that backdrops Emma Kohlmann’s new exhibition, watercolors of warped, acrobatic bodies are pinned to the walls like butterfly specimens. Similar figures reappear as paintings on linen, captured within wooden frames that …
38 Thoughts I Had While Watching Netflix’s Rebecca
We’re well into spooky season, which makes the Lily James/Armie Hammer reboot of Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 Gothic novel Rebecca terrifyingly well-timed. The movie, which features a newly married young woman locked in eerie competition …