
The Identity Hoaxers
What if people don’t just invent medical symptoms to get attention—what if they feign oppression, too?
Great articles, every Saturday.
What if people don’t just invent medical symptoms to get attention—what if they feign oppression, too?
Helen Lewis The Atlantic Mar 2021 Permalink
A young lover grapples with arrangements and quarantine.
Claire Rudy Foster Split Lip Magazine Nov 2020 15min Permalink
Hustling and sexual identity in Lagos.
Eloghosa Osunde Paris Review Oct 2020 20min Permalink
Two Southern neighbors form a layered bond.
Frederica Morgan Davis storySouth Oct 2020 35min Permalink
Details of a quarter-life crisis.
Sarah Walker BULL Magazine Sep 2020 10min Permalink
A Black writer haunts a fussy editor.
Walter Mosley Lit Hub Sep 2020 15min Permalink
A hockey player's life spirals out of control.
Jeff W. Bens Guernica Sep 2020 10min Permalink
An encounter with a bear opens a strange world of self-discovery.
Joshua Shaw Third Point Press Aug 2020 Permalink
A friend's party brings up sad memories and introspection.
Christopher Gonzalez BULL Magazine Jul 2020 Permalink
A queer Black man's chance encounters.
Brandon Taylor them. Jul 2020 25min Permalink
In the 1960s, a white subdivision prepares for the arrival of a black family.
Brit Bennett The Cut Jun 2020 10min Permalink
Growing up indigenous in Detroit.
Ron Riekki jmww Journal May 2020 20min Permalink
A troubled TV chef meets a mysterious creature.
Susanna Crossman Berfrois Apr 2020 10min Permalink
A futuristic world of scavenging and anatomical harvesting.
Yoon Ha Lee Lightspeed Magazine Apr 2020 30min Permalink
A childhood poster catalyzes complex doubts about a marriage.
Weike Wang Gulf Coast Magazine Mar 2020 15min Permalink
A young woman in a dead-end job searches for direction.
Jerilynn Aquino Passages North Feb 2020 10min Permalink
A flight attendant caught between various loves and worlds.
Hana Mason Little Fiction Feb 2020 10min Permalink
Surviving sexual assault in a rapidly digitized world.
Mary South The New Yorker Jan 2020 30min Permalink
Grown siblings, relationships, and ways of seeing.
Camille Bordas The New Yorker Dec 2019 30min Permalink
A neighbor's strange procedure; a couple's disintegrating marriage.
Nick Bertelson Pithead Chapel Dec 2019 15min Permalink
A hockey father's escalating faultsthe.
Bradley Babendir The Sun Magazine Nov 2019 10min Permalink
A night of various crises and personal reflection.
Christopher Gonzalez Berfrois Nov 2019 Permalink
A student navigates unexpected connections and the threat of terrorism.
J.E. Reich Little Fiction Nov 2019 30min Permalink
A need for money causes interpersonal confusion.
Michele Suzann Vol. 1 Brooklyn Oct 2019 Permalink
Murderous readers and a house of memory.
Bud Smith The Nervous Breakdown Oct 2019 10min Permalink