Non-Fiction
The Alchemy of Music: Answers from the Great Beyond
Bruce Farrell Rosen stumbles on his deceased mother’s prized music collection, and in the listening, she comes back to him.
The Alchemy of Music: Answers from the Great Beyond
Bruce Farrell Rosen stumbles on his deceased mother’s prized music collection, and in the listening, she comes back to him.
What’s a Manuel Ferreira? Book Excerpt from The Prison Lady
Phyllis Taylor is the author of The Prison Lady, a memoir of her journey alongside prisoners. The following is an excerpt from her book.
I Wish my Doll had Been Made of Metal: The Heartbreak of the Lahaina Inferno (Essay)
By Bruce Farrell Rosen, One of my favorite places in all the world was Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii. I first travelled there in the summer of
The Synagogue at the End of the World (Memoir)
(Note to reader: the following is taken from a work in progress, a blended memoir about contemporary Jewish identity and the legacy of the Holocaust.
Simon Wiesenthal, meet Henry Morgentaler (Column)
By Leah Eichler, I can’t recall exactly what inspired me, in the late 1990s, to send that fax (a fax!) to Simon Weisenthal’s office in
Shell Game
By Jacob Austin, The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas is hosting a traveling exhibit called Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art.
I Loved Milan Kundera in Part Because His Pain was Familiar (Column)
By Leah Eichler, Milan Kundera died this week at age 94 and the free flow of obituaries reminded me of how enamoured I was with
The Lottery Taught Us That the World Can Be a Scary Place (Column)
By Leah Eichler, Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery first appeared in print in The New Yorker in the June 26, 1948 issue and according to legend,
The Titan and the Audacity of an Instagrammable Life (Column)
By Leah Eichler, It’s been almost a week since the wreckage from the Titan, the doomed submersible bent on giving its wealthy passengers a close-up
What Would Jane Do? My Sister Talks to Dogs — A Lot
Dear Jane, My sister finds something wrong with everything, complaining constantly. She also expects me to visit her at home and tolerate her dogs barking at
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