She stops to look into her mother's face. It is smooth and blank as a stone. Nothing emerges; nothing shifts.

The author discusses her new book, Stag Dance.

“Don’t come out until I come back!”

I worried I had broken the chatbot by trauma-dumping, and no one, human or machine, had the capacity to console me completely.

If he took a shortcut, if he made the creative process any easier for himself, the magic would be lost.

The author of Julius Julius on ad agency ghosts, shaming PSAs, and sexual harassment post-#MeToo

Notes on cruising.

The manner of my demise is of little interest, besides serving as our jumping off point.

The author of The Vinyl Diaries on coming of age during the AIDS pandemic, midlife crises, and the music his younger partners recommend.

Love was not a drink, and my pursuit of it did not fit perfectly into the rubric of addiction, but it had taken me.

Unlike the many high profile hip-hop figures who have fallen from grace due to their misdeeds in recent years, Playboi Carti's misconduct shows no signs of slowing down his ascent.

The world must appear strange as you peer through our hero’s eyes. Your eyes now.

The world must appear strange as you peer through our hero’s eyes. Your eyes now.

The author discusses his new book on Merle Oberon, the Golden Age of Hollywood starlet whose South Asian heritage was hidden from the industry.

I had a kind of premonition, even before a word was said, that things were about to shift.

Story of Your Mother satisfies boundless appetite for motherhood narratives, like Miranda July and Leslie Jamison

The author of Sucker Punch on surrendering to life's cycles, writing about her divorce, and picking the right fights.

That so much night could exist within a city entranced me.

Desire and decision may not line up. Or indecision ends up being its own decision.

The author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This on euphemistic violence, Western hypocrisy, and personal complicity.

Butches, Femmes, and Mobsters: Inside the world of America's early drag superstars.

My memories of these meals carried me, unwaveringly, from month to wretched month—attempting to re-conjure them gave me something to do at my most desperate.

In an abandoned military barracks in rural Germany, Ben Green prepares for the end of the world

A man prepares for the end of the world in an abandoned military barracks in rural Germany. Also, a Syrian journalist records a journey through repression.

Can Tyler, The Creator shake off his past with Chromakopia?

Unrelenting snow, bottomless drinks, unexpected acquaintances, and strange sights.

In an abandoned military barracks in rural Germany, Ben Green prepares for the end of the world

In an abandoned military barracks in rural Germany, Ben Green prepares for the end of the world

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Is it okay that he’s over here so often, hooking up my mum’s speakers and swirling his single malt Scotch? We all wonder, we never ask.

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It’s weird how hitting the ground doesn’t really hurt.

These art objects let me feel my own living form through the many shapes they had been pressed into.