A Way Out, by Tarence Ray
Reflections on the nonprofit-legislative-industrial complex
The Ambien Diaries, by Shuja Haider
“I emoted over a bad haircut, assumed I had invented ontology, expounded on the erroneous opinion that Steely Dan is not a good band. I was 19.”
Bad Paperwork, by Lucas Iberico Lozada
A wrenching story about a couple torn apart by draconian federal immigration policies
It Was Like There Was a Fog in the Sky Only I Could See, by Ashoka Mukpo
Immigrants from Africa and the iron gateways of mass deportation
Something Like Springtime by Josh Roiland
Jonathan Richman moves to a working-class town in Maine and befriends a restaurant-owner named Barbara.
Jennalee by Meher Ahmad
It didn’t just happen overnight, the neat, sarcastic packaging of my childhood misfortunes.
Bourdain Confidential by Maria Bustillos
An incandescent, wide-ranging interview with the late Anthony Bourdain—the last he ever gave—touches on politics, persuasion, and the thing so ghastly it’s “like watching your grandmother breakdance naked.”
Continuing Mission by Robert Greene II
Jean-Luc Picard was a warrior-diplomat and explorer, a historian and an archaeologist
The Why of Cooking by Sarah Peters Miller
She piled up pieces of fennel at the edge of her plate, and, without wanting to, I thought about how much each of them cost.
Everything Is Free by Ron Regé, Jr.
The industrial age may actually have been kind of a bad idea
