Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

On Not Knowing

“I moved here to embrace the not knowing. It doesn’t come easily.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “On Not Knowing” by Katherine Plumhoff.

by Katherine Plumhoff • March 18, 2023March 19, 2023

Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Wherever You Go, There You Are

“Just like that, my world unravelled in seconds.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “Wherever You Go, There You Are” by Teresa Shimogawa.

by Teresa Shimogawa • March 11, 2023March 12, 2023

Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Nowhere Lake

“At Nowhere Lake, all was abandoned as if in midsentence.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “Nowhere Lake” by Anita Kestin.

by Anita Kestin • March 4, 2023March 5, 2023

Editor's Pick, EssaySaturday

Is anybody “active now”? Longing in the Era of Instant Messages

They are all ‘green’, colleagues and customers, they are ‘active now’ The same with my students yesterday, I sent the fourth reminder.

by Sylvia Solakidi • February 25, 2023February 27, 2023

Editor's Pick, EssaySaturday

Is Rome Burning?

Historians say Nero did not set a fire; whether he was fiddling or not I do not know. It seems to me sometimes that America is figuratively burning, and at ...

by Marc Frazier • February 11, 2023February 11, 2023

Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

The Carlton Arms

“It was a nightmare,” he recalls. “There were hookers turning tricks in the bathroom and junkies shooting up in the halls. If you were predisposed for a nervous breakdown, then ...

by Donald Ranard • February 4, 2023February 13, 2023

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

On Being A Mother: 20 Observations

Motherhood began when the world began.

by Julie Boutwell-Peterson • November 5, 2022November 10, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Laughing at the Forbidden: A Review of Percival Everett’s “The Trees”

No author has been more overlooked than Percival Everett.

by N.T. McQueen • October 22, 2022October 21, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Abortion Access Was Never Equal. Here’s How I Know

For young women today everything, and nothing, has changed. 

by Andrea Leeb • September 24, 2022September 24, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Roto-Shine

Instantly I fast-forward to a familiar concern: what will befall his
old Roto-Shine Electric Shoe Polisher when I am gone?

by Geoff Kronik • September 17, 2022September 16, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

The Fading World

He has no recollection of Abba jee, my grandfather; he met him only once when he was barely three. But he has inherited the fear I have long harboured in ...

by Aneeka Usman • August 27, 2022August 26, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Out

All day you are outside, walking, alone. The businesses, save for a few, are dark and shuttered, the streets empty.

by Aube Rey Lescure • August 6, 2022August 1, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Voice Lessons

My goal is to reclaim what was lost.

by Nadja Maril • July 30, 2022July 29, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

On a Clear Night in California

Above all, my father was benevolent; a man of the people, and of all living creatures.

by Erin Offland • July 23, 2022July 22, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Summer of Acceptance

I was sixteen and mesmerized by the graffiti – framed by tunnels, bridges, and walls of industrial buildings. It seemed the only view on an Amtrak train from Springfield, Mass ...

by John Chambers • July 10, 2022July 10, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Nostalgia, circa 1960’s

The Wikipedia tour guide spiel It would be my time at the Beauty Pageant metropolis that summer. We start at the majestic Marlborough Blenheim Hotel at Nineteen Hundred Pacific Avenue and ...

by Ricardo Gonzalez-Rothi • June 25, 2022June 24, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

The Lucid Interval

Photo by Hervé Simon One of memory’s slyer tricks is to colour things with a sense of foreboding. When I think of that night in Siena, the details seem prescient. The ...

by Robert Herbst • June 18, 2022June 19, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Walking the West Side Highway

Photo by Joiseyshowaa I didn’t know the history of the West Side Highway when my mom and I started walking it in the mid-1970s. All I knew was that it was ...

by Karen Rosenberg • June 11, 2022June 10, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Half a Woman on the Side of the Road

Illustration by Ariel Noltimier Strauss. At a truck stop I can really look my situation in the face. The first trans women I saw as a child were on episodes of ...

by Gal McMahon • June 4, 2022June 21, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Life’s Ups and Downs

The amusement park sprawled across acres of land criss-crossed by paths and studded with buildings and rides. Although some of the rides offered a great deal of vertical movement, others ...

by Jason Arment • May 28, 2022May 27, 2022