Outside the Manson Pinkberry
On Manson bloggers, murder fandom and being a sad, dark teen.
Teenagers
‘I Feel Like I’m Just Drowning’: Sophomore Year in a Pandemic
A group of high school students try desperately to make it through an isolated and dire year.
The Lost Year: What the Pandemic Cost Teenagers
In Hobbs, New Mexico, the high school closed and football was cancelled, while just across the state line in Texas, students seemed to be living nearly normal lives. Here’s how pandemic school closures exact their emotional toll on young people.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "And It Goes Running"
The summer of a teenage werewolf.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Take It"
A homeless teen stumbles upon a strange house party.
Teenage Pricks
How Trumpism operates on the knowledge that some people can get away with anything, and how it offers a false promise to extend that privilege to white kids everywhere
Ben and Dara Are in Love ... and Nothing Else Matters
On excess, wealth, and teenage love.
How a Phone Glitch Sparked a Teenage Riot
When Swedish teenagers hacked the phone system and turned a state-owned telecom system into a proto-Internet.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "What Fundamentalists Do"
While visiting a new church, a teenager questions her faith.
Everyone Believed Larry Nassar
The predatory trainer may have just taken down USA Gymnastics. How did he deceive so many for so long?
Trouble in Lakewood
How a once idyllic postwar town fell under the sway of a teen-age gang.
The Most Important Video Game on the Planet
How Fortnite became the Instagram of gaming.
The Promise of Vaping and the Rise of Juul
Kids have taken a technology that was supposed to help grownups stop smoking and invented a new kind of bad habit, molded in their own image.
What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn
American adolescents watch much more pornography than their parents know.
“I Want It to Stop”
At 15, Ruben Urbina couldn’t bear his depression and anxiety anymore. So he called police with a chilling threat.
My 22 Crushes
Tales of teenage romance.
Ficion: "Eugene OR"
A teenager faces a series of escalating life challenges.
Fiction: "Holograms"
Three teenagers, their futures, the concept of alternate realities.
Wrong Way
Kids say it’s fun to take cars. They brag to each other about how many they’ve stolen and the sleekest models they’ve sped away in. They say they are bored and that it’s easy, sharing videos of themselves driving at 120 miles per hour. They smile with key fobs, offering rides on Facebook. But all of the biggest car thieves had something to run from.
The Strawberry Girls
Life as a pageant queen in Plant City, Florida.
‘Hot’ Sex & Young Girls
On the obsession with the sexual and social habits of American teenage girls.
What It's Like to Be 13, Right Now
“She scrolls, she waits. For that little notification box to appear.”
Selfies, Dating, and the American 14-Year-Old
Lily gets ready for her first date.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Stick Shift"
A girl's interaction before her Coming Out dance.
"I had no idea about myself, whether I was pretty or different or what. That I had not yet attracted a boyfriend was a failure that weighed on my mind. If I was pretty, I figured, I would have one already. But if I was different, a fresh idea for me, that would explain the problem, for I thought that boys didn’t like girls who weren’t the same as every other girl they knew. I didn’t play varsity sports and look like it, and I wasn’t fey, I didn’t play an instrument or go in for the arts. I was smart, though. “Boys are intimidated by your intellect,” my married sister once told me, meaning it as a compliment. But I didn’t act nearly as smart as I was, so I couldn’t believe that was true."
Fly Trans-Love Airways
Rebellious teens on the Sunset Strip.
Reprinted by Longform and available online in full for the first time, this article also appears in Adler's new collection, After the Tall Timber.
