Stars
...feel you’ve tried everything here, move to another planet entirely: In “No Spin Zone,” Erik Petigura discusses the recent boom of exoplanet discoveries. Show More Virgo: It is an understudied...
One If by Land, Two If by Sea
...high-profile border operation in San Diego like the one that had just been tried in El Paso (Operation Blockade, later Hold the Line). The implementation of Operation Gatekeeper in San...
Interview: Sister Nancy Ruth, Life-Professed Member of the Order of St. Andrew, Hudson Valley, New York
...to be who I am. I’m not sure if I’ve ever consciously tried to feel sexy. I’ve experimented a little bit more now that I’ve lost some weight; I’ve experimented...
The world has been created a few minutes ago
...bridge. we tried on some panties. she’s reading lunar park. i told her it was a big mistake. the beginning is fine but then he starts to see ghosts everywhere....
Reading the U.S. Torture Footnotes
...in . . . He got out of the car, came to where I was and tried to rape me.—We Charge Genocide, UN Shadow Report * For the distinction between...
The Hinterland: A Travelogue, Part 3
...they always? They had a good laugh, a real hearty one. My own chest bloomed, in huge black stellar flowers and all their usual barbs, and I tried to swallow...
Junk Drawer
...The results themselves are only temporary—they would look different every time—capturing the ebb and flow of our pop culture obsessions. In many ways Odell is just as much an anthropologist...
Mommie Dearest
Adoption stories usually begin with the conceit of orphans, when oftentimes the mothers are still alive.
The Jimmy McNulty Gambit: Mike Daisey and the Thickening Crust of Our Awareness
...fails, of course, but that’s not the important thing; the important thing is why he even tried. After all, Jimmy McNulty’s problem is not only that he’s an unscrupulous narcissist,...
Circle Circle Dot Dot
...hell? I thought to myself. I tried to laugh it off and went over to another kid. And before I could extend my hand, the same girl interjected— “Don’t touch...
Ramadan Diaries, Day Twenty-Nine
...waste what they feel." "I hope I die warmed by the life that I tried to live." You get the feeling she is the kind of person who understands that...
Towards a 'Moral' Assassination Model
...most transparent administration in history ' line, this time in a 'fireside hangout' hosted by Google: '[W]hat I tried to do coming into the office was to create a legal...
Jar-Jar Jesus
...have refuted this psychosocial equivalent of a breath mint, yet every time I closed my eyes and tried to use the force of my self-belief to make my dog levitate...
First as Farce, Then as Tragedy
...epic’s prodigious sway over the popular Hindu culture and its unique relationship to history has made this possible. In the West, one encounters the epic as a literary genre that...
The Worst Hair Dryer in the World
...take at least six more weeks, because I'm lazy about the stupidest things—it got me thinking about how people might've tried to commodify hair before blow-dryers were around. (The first...
A Connecting Thing
...religions, books and song. What if Parisians would see? What if U.S. Americans saw after Nine Eleven? Shunned their cowboy and sinister senators? Read and investigated, instead? Tried the guilty...