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Smart
by Will Montei | Feb 14, 2017 | Placeless
Outward Bound, Super Camp, tutors, counsellors, mentors—my parents spared no expense in trying to figure out my 2.33 cumulative high school GPA. Nothing worked.
Notes From Captivity
by Catherine Kramer | Feb 13, 2017 | France
0734:
Bobby pin located by companion, lock picking commenced. She picks. I pick. The lock is deemed unpickable.
This, Too
by Abby Zwart | Feb 12, 2017 | Holland
But the sun comes out and doughnuts exist and there’s a one-eyed cat who likes to roam the school grounds and often visits my window. This happens, too.
Bussing It in Cambodia
by Elaine Schnabel | Feb 11, 2017 | Cambodia
Driving in Cambodia is not a careful endeavor. It is not orderly. The rules are, at best, flexible.
Nothing Goes as Planned
by Katie Van Zanen | Feb 10, 2017 | California, Egypt, France, Germany, New York, Washington
Last fall, my much-delayed Megabus dropped me off in Chinatown at 2:30 a.m. I had seven percent battery life, four dollars in cash, and no idea how to get to Brooklyn.
Graying
by Bart Tocci | Feb 9, 2017 | New Jersey, New York
The grate creeks and I move to step off, but it snaps under my weight. I’m falling. I thought I could grab the side of the sidewalk, but I can’t.
The Biggest Sucker in Budapest
by Paul Menn | Feb 8, 2017 | Hungary
Don’t look back, keep walking, project confidence, don’t run, keep calm, almost there, almost there, almost there – RUN! Lose yourself in the crowd!
Chimera
by Caroline (Higgins) Nyczak | Feb 7, 2017 | Placeless
At dinner, we held hands and prayed out loud at the restaurants. Everyone did. To different gods.
Prologue
by Josh deLacy | Feb 6, 2017 | Montana
I had no cell phone service. No way to leave. I had ridden here in the back seat of a minivan, lurching through miles of winding and branching dirt roads, through a night black with trees and dust and stories of fights.
All This Happened, More or Less: a Travelogue
by Alissa Anderson | Feb 5, 2017 | Denmark
I went to Denmark. For my first trip to Scandinavia. In January.
How the Police Steal Your Dignity
by Ben Rietema | Feb 4, 2017 | Placeless
The semi-employed anti-hero of this tragic sob-story did what we all want to do but cannot because of various reasons, mostly time-related.
Anarcha
by Meg Schmidt | Feb 3, 2017 | Alabama
Today, he is known as “the father of gynecology” and is loved for—as his statues say—“treating empress and slave alike.”
Wizards in Wisconsin
by Jacob Schepers | Feb 2, 2017 | Wisconsin
In my afternoon with wizards and troll farts, I collected electronic sparkles, almost broke my neck, and unknowingly imprisoned myself and my younger brother.
Things Keep Happening and Happening and Happening
by Katerina Parsons | Feb 1, 2017 | Honduras
I sent the email at 3 p.m., and at 3:05 I wondered how they would get the blood from the seats and I couldn’t get it out of my head.
The Absurd World and A Series of Unfortunate Events
by Erin Tanis | Jan 31, 2017 | Placeless
I was wrong. I am eating crow. I need to figure out how to be a part of a world that seems too strange and treacherous to believe.
Yarn Shop
by Leah Sienkowski | Jan 31, 2017 | Placeless
The first mittens that the girl ever knits are for her father, but he does not wear them, because he is afraid he will ruin them.
Courage
by Matt Coldagelli | Jan 30, 2017 | Placeless
This balancing act bestows a lot of power on therapists. It also becomes a breeding ground for callousness.
Soviet Daughter
by Jacqueline Ristola | Jan 30, 2017 | Placeless
Themes of identity across generations of Russian-Jewish women are wonderfully woven together in Julia Alekseyeva’s brilliant debut graphic memoir, Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution.
Four More Years!
by Richard Martin | Jan 29, 2017 | Film review
“The best movie ever made! Critics everywhere LOVE it. Cannes standing ovation. Big appalls!”
Five More Minutes
by Bekah (Williamson) Medendorp | Jan 28, 2017 | Grand Rapids
Their apathy towards education, even in the moments it was spoon fed to them, was almost impressive.
Let the Mystery Be
by Brad Zwiers | Jan 27, 2017 | Placeless
In an age now marked by both facts and alternative facts, our search for truth intensifies.
The Legendary Life of Étienne Brûlé
by Nick Meekhof | Jan 26, 2017 | Michigan
Étienne Brûlé sat down for his quarterly review in a loincloth and moccasins, chuckling to himself in Algonquin about the foolishness of imperialism.
A Moment Already Passed
by Jack VA | Jan 25, 2017 | Placeless
There’s a song I’ve had stuck in my head for over a year now. And not just the music—it’s like the idea of the song is stuck in my head.
Betsy DeVos wants students to compete for academic opportunity, and that’s a problem. Here’s why.
by Josh Boerman | Jan 24, 2017 | Grand Rapids
Ours is an era of historically massive income inequality; the DeVos plan for the future of American education would serve to further exacerbate the situation.
Why Feminism Matters and Doesn’t Matter
by Lauren (Boersma) Harris | Jan 24, 2017 | Placeless
Words have limitations.
Silence: The Best NOT-Feel-Good Movie of the Year
by Julia LaPlaca | Jan 23, 2017 | Placeless
Silence is dead serious about faith.
On Ice Climbing and John Prine
by Matt Medendorp | Jan 22, 2017 | Michigan, Ohio
Spend the next four years, and hopefully not eight, dear God hopefully not eight, fighting for those wild and important places.
La Malinche Trump
by Gabe Gunnink | Jan 20, 2017 | Mexico
This narrative of Melania as a sly badass emerged through a series of clickable Internet conspiracy theories.
“MRW I stop using facebook only to start using Reddit”
by Mary Margaret Healy | Jan 19, 2017 | Placeless
I had learned pretty quickly that Reddit was not friendly to women, people in ethnic minority groups, people in sexual minority groups…or really anyone.
This Review Will Wreck Your Evening / Your Whole Life and Your Day
by Ben DeVries | Jan 18, 2017 | Placeless
The show excels in precisely the same way as its source material: it approaches its subject matter with a pitch-perfect ear for dark humor, and with an impishly ironic attitude toward storytelling.
