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Sisters

How ‘Shadow’ Foster Care Is Tearing Families Apart

Across the country, an unregulated system is severing parents from children, who often end up abandoned by the agencies that are supposed to protect them.

Lizzie Presser New York Times Magazine Dec 2021 Permalink

Best Article Tech

Ghosts

Here I should conjure my sister for you. Here I should describe her, so that you feel her absence as I do—so that you’re made ghostly by it, too. But, though I’m a writer, I’ve never been able to conjure her.

Vauhini Vara The Believer Aug 2021 25min Permalink

Sports

You Ain’t Never Been No Little Girl, Taylor Townsend

You walk around carrying this invisible weight — this pressure on your whole spirit—because the worlds you’re trying to fit into are rejecting you in so many ways. And you think it’s your fault.

Taylor Townsend Players' Tribune Jun 2021 25min Permalink

Two Sisters and the Terrorist Who Came Between Them

Was Samantha Sally a prisoner or a conspirator?

Jessica Roy Elle Aug 2019 30min Permalink

Sports

Did Venus Williams Ever Get Her Due?

How the first Williams sister changed the course of women’s tennis.

Elizabeth Weil New York Times Magazine Aug 2019 30min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Lost Girls"

Young sisters, an old newspaper, and notions of time.

Nicole Simonsen Necessary Fiction Apr 2019 Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Re-Stitched"

Two sisters; a grotesque religious ritual.

Julie C. Day Split Lip Magazine Jan 2018 15min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Dogs Go Wolf"

Under mysterious circumstances, two sisters are abandoned on an island.

Lauren Groff The New Yorker Aug 2017 25min Permalink