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Best Article Health

The Promise That Tested My Parents Until the End

A couple, a caregiver, and a promise.

Christopher Solomon GQ Nov 2020 20min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Townie"

Details of a quarter-life crisis.

Sarah Walker BULL Magazine Sep 2020 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Haunted"

A Black writer haunts a fussy editor.

Walter Mosley Lit Hub Sep 2020 15min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Parks and Wildlife"

An encounter with a bear opens a strange world of self-discovery.

Joshua Shaw Third Point Press Aug 2020 Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Heirlooms"

Cultures clash when a man bonds with his boyfriend's mother.

Bryan Washington New Yorker Aug 2020 25min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Boys to Men"

A man's relationship to help and addictions.

Shannon McLeod Maudlin House Jul 2020 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Root Bound"

A couple's attempt to create an offspring from nature.

Olivia Bradley Third Point Press May 2020 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Edie Bakes Cakes"

A troubled TV chef meets a mysterious creature.

Susanna Crossman Berfrois Apr 2020 10min Permalink

Travel

A Love Letter to My Curmudgeonly Big Brother

Two brothers attempt to bond on a trek in the Cascades

Steve Friedman Outside Apr 2020 Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Out There"

A woman suspects her new boyfriend is less than human.

Kate Folk The New Yorker Mar 2020 25min

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Boxes"

A new apartment; exercises in surrealism.

J.I. Daniels Juked Magazine Feb 2020 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "A Request"

A young woman in a dead-end job searches for direction.

Jerilynn Aquino Passages North Feb 2020 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Twelfth Utopia"

An addict's relationship causes various traumas.

Max Halper Pithead Chapel Feb 2020 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Only Orange"

Grown siblings, relationships, and ways of seeing.

Camille Bordas The New Yorker Dec 2019 30min Permalink

Guns and Marriage

An unlikely Army wife tries to come to terms with her husband’s calling.

Simone Gorrindo Longreads Dec 2019 20min Permalink

Business Sex

The 'Mess of Complexity' in Directing Your Porn Star Partner

Kross cuts through the moans and shouts from off-camera: “Someone go wide!” She’s telling the cameramen to make sure they are adequately capturing the reverse gang bang of Ferrara—the love of her life.

Tracy Clark-Flory Jezebel Oct 2019 30min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Deficit"

A need for money causes interpersonal confusion.

Michele Suzann Vol. 1 Brooklyn Oct 2019 Permalink

The Breakup Museum

Strangers want their past relationships witnessed, and other strangers come to Zagreb to witness them.

Leslie Jamison Virginia Quarterly Review Feb 2018 25min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Floating"

The complexities of aging and desire.

Ben Tanzer Maudlin House Sep 2019 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Stone"

A mystical stone guides a woman through her life.

Louise Erdrich New Yorker Sep 2019 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "No Matter"

A possible visitor from the future; the upheaval of time and logic.

Kendra Fortmeyer Lightspeed Magazine Aug 2019 20min Permalink

Travel

The Crane Wife

On calling off a wedding, and studying whooping cranes.

CJ Hauser The Paris Review Jul 2019 Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Give Me a Love Song"

Scenes and thoughts from an affair.

Melissa Goode The Penn Review May 2019 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Lawrence of Arabia"

An unexpected visitor—a camel—helps a woman cope with personal and political turmoil.

Vineetha Mokkil Gravel Magazine May 2019 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Pergola"

A depressed man attempts a home improvement project.

Kevin Maloney The Nervous Breakdown Apr 2019 Permalink

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