The New Yorker
Read Adam Gopnik’s latest op-ed, “How to Build a Twenty-first-Century Tyrant.”
LitHub
Read “Dear American Gun Owner: When is Enough?,” an essay by Brenda Hillman.
The New Yorker
Read “Sundown Walks to the Edge of the Story,” a new poem by Joy Harjo.
The New Yorker
Read “As Long As She Likes” by Ellen Bass: “I’ve never returned to my mother’s grave. / But I see her every day.”
Fractured Lit
New flash fiction, “Blink and You Miss Her” by Deesha Philyaw.
The Guardian
Read “Resistance,” a new poem by Simon Armitage.
The Yale Review
Aminatta Forna pens a reflection on memoir writing and transcending the trauma narrative.
NY Review of Books
Read “Day” a new poem by Jorie Graham: “Lie still it says. / Very still. / Listen.”
Scientific American
Meghan O’Rourke writes on how COVID long haulers are calling attention to chronic illnesses.