Paint by Numbers
By Nancy Hightower.
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American Gods
Noah Klein’s tongue-in-cheek examination of the connection between the Wheaties box and the American dream.
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Past Lives
“There is so much copper in it that the grate has turned a beautiful blue and the edges rust,” writes Sarina Bosco in this week’s micro nonfiction
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Trapped
“We liked to be Indians as much as we did cowboys—maybe more. The tide was turning. Or so we were told. Or so we wanted to believe.” Nancy Caronia juxtaposes the then and now of childhood in this week’s personal essay.
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America the Brutalful
“America’s beautiful face is a conglomerate, a skin of managed myths. Peel it back and the beautiful is revealed as the brutal.” Kent Monroe looks at how racism is interconnected with what it means to be American.
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Remembering A Woman I Didn’t Know, Fighting A War I Don’t Believe In
In memory of Sabeen Mahmud.
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A Dream of the Earth: Part Two
“I realize I’ve been … a kind of psychedelic Philistine. Perhaps it was my slightly romanticized, somewhat pantheistic, sense of all this…” Part two of Michael C. Blumenthal’s essay on the psychedelic experience in mid-age.
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A Dream of the Earth: Part One
“I was scared and apprehensive, as anyone who dabbles in the sacred ought to be, when … I, for the first time in 15 years, ingested a small clear capsule containing 250 micrograms of the substance known as LSD.” Michael C. Blumenthal on ‘the psychedelic experience in mid-age’.
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Errant Thoughts on Life, Beauty and Death
“Whilst we largely owe our brain anatomy to a massive succession of remote and infinitesimal biochemical events (through mutation and natural selection), the evolutionary “panacea†alone cannot account for all by-products of brain function”, writes Karl Malone Magalhães in this week’s essay.
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Acceptable Selfies for the Educated Individual
At a time where everyone seems to be on social media decrying the latest controversy or terrorist attack, Emily Eagen explores whether online activism can really make a difference.
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