and thoughts on evangelical insularity

It’s one thing to think abstractly about what men want, as a literary or philosophical question, or even to decry sexism as a social phenomenon; it’s another to be a single woman in New York City seek...

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A nurse stood at the door—scrubs, clipboard, the whole nine yards. “We’re ready for you,” she said. I followed her down a hall and behind a curtain, where I changed into the robe, laid back in the whe...

We are drowning, choking, and sputtering on the saline logic of late capitalism: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

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The communal intimacy of a Korean spa offers a radical departure from the body-fearing purity culture of my youth

At youth group and church camp, I learned to perform my own unworthiness. It took years to recognize the spiritual harm this...

by Matt Mauch

One Monday morning in January 2003, Lélia receives an anonymous postcard bearing nothing but four names—Ephraïm, Emma, Noémie, Jacques: the names of Lélia’s maternal grandparents, aunt, and uncle,...

Sports, sobriety, and unending quests

Why love a boy just on the basis of his boy-ness?

The musician and drag queen is an exvangelical who came to see that holding on to a theology of self-loathing was just too...

The crisis that catalyzes Gabriella D’Italia’s debut memoir, Getting Dressed in the Dark: An Artist’s Way Home, is a gruesome separation and divorce, when D’Italia learns that her partner of twenty…

This narrative unmooring, while unconventional, strikes me as a byproduct of Jong’s departure from high-control religion

My annual Halloween costume essay? Featuring hell

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McKenzie Watson-Fore first came across Natasha Lehrer’s work when she was reviewing her translation of Cécile Desprairies’s autofictional novel, The Propagandist (released by New Vessel Press in Octob...

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On Friday, May 2nd, 2025, DOGE and the National Endowment for the Arts terminated $300,000 worth of grants for 51 publishers. The email, a copy and paste job, trickled into inboxes at odd hours. 5:…

Five years after the George Floyd protests, many liberals blame “wokeness” for stifling open debate. So why can’t they handle being disagreed with?