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In Which Winter Days Are Just A Magazine
The Comfort of My Mother and The War by ELLEN COPPERFIELD I think of reading a book as no less an experience than traveling or falling in love. Jorge Luis Borges was born in the center of old Buenos...
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In Which We Unwind For The Afternoon
The Guesswork by JEN SIRACA Abruptly they were coming towards me. Their faces shone so brightly they could be mistaken for lamp posts. Sheila played with a yoyo, her new friend wore a gaudy bracelet...
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In Which We Begin To See Other People
"Jumping", Gladys Nilsson Elbows by KARA VANDERBIJL When he told me he thought I should see other people, I jumped at the chance to please him. I saw, in no particular order: — a barber named Lenny...
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In Which We Descend Into Homo Aquaticus
Habitat Jones by ALEX CARNEVALE Since eventually the lands of Earth will be subsumed by the rising tides of the planet, it is imperative we learn to live completely underwater. A lot of things are...
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In Which Certain Things Are More Enjoyable With A Group
Closed Circle by ELLIS DENKLIN Walking his dog in the park at night, he came upon them. They sat shiftily among each other, possessions escaping and rejoining their owners. His pet, a Portugeuse water...
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In Which There Are No Secrets Now
The Sixteenth Floor by HELEN SCHUMACHER Homeland creator Gideon Rath It’s impossible to know for sure given the CIA’s classified records, but James Forrestal was perhaps the first person involved in...
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In Which We Leave The Winter Behind
If I Learn To Skate by SUMEJA TULIC 13 November I am sure if I learn to skate my life will dramatically improve for the better. I am almost 28, I have a 9 to 5 job, and I live in a city with only one...
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In Which We Dance Like A Fool
Deliberately Complicated by SHAHIRAH MAJUMDAR Solange is so likeable. Big sister B is cool in an obvious, occasionally ironic way (like, the fact that you taught the “Single Ladies” dance to your 5...
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In Which We Fell In Love Alone
This Isn't About Now by ANAÏS MATHERS I got food poisoning the day before my kindergarten class’s Valentine’s Day party. I was very disappointed that I didn’t get to bring the heart-shaped Jell-o...
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In Which We Spy Through The Panes
Scavengers by KARA VANDERBIJL Christmas Eve was an excuse to get out of the house. Shortly after lunch, we’d pile into the car with some idea of a place we had never visited and a vague sense of how...
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In Which We Monogram Absolutely Everything
An Invitation by LILIBET SNELLINGS Most every surface in my parents’ Georgia home is monogrammed — the bath towels, the coasters, the seashell-shaped soaps. Give a waspy Southern woman a millimeter of...
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In Which We Ransack Our Mind For What Is Not There
You Live Alone by LUCY MORRIS For many months, here in New York, we lived each day like it was the last week of summer. I trust you know the kind: the late August nights when you stay up until dawn,...
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In Which The Seduction Is More Complicated
25 Verifiable Facts About Marlon Brando by ELLEN COPPERFIELD 1 When I first saw Marlon Brando, he looked like a bowling ball with a lisp emitting from the finger holes. 2 He was a hellion as a teen....
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In Which We Embark On An Unsettling Endeavor
A Way Out by EMILY ROSENBERG How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into. –...
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In Which We Read The Remarks Of Housewives
Vicariously by RACHEL SYKES This time last year, I was recovering from a stay in the hospital by reading The Feminine Mystique. I had found an old copy among several novels on the floor of my...
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In Which We Meet Someone New And Ill-Advised
The Weight of What Happened by LUCY MORRIS I began 2012 with a literal lump in my throat. The doctors at the Duane Reade clinic I went to did not know how to remedy it. They gave me horse pill...
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In Which We Examine Quentin Tarantino's Skull
Dark Rider by ALEX CARNEVALE Django Unchained dir. Quentin Tarantino 180 minutes Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) has a lot of money and is very, very bored, a position Quentin Tarantino has been...
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In Which We Make A Plan For The Year Ahead
View of the New Year by ALEX CARNEVALE In the ocean, there is a separation between myself and the world. Drying off dissipates it. I swam with my father as a boy. He told me that he thought of the day...
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In Which Money Buys Judd Apatow Happiness
With Luxury by SHELBY SHAW This Is 40 dir. Judd Apatow 133 minutes If anything, Judd Apatow should have titled his new effort This Is My Life In 2012, and not only because Apatow’s wife of 15 years is...
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In Which We Write A Lovely Inscription
Sydney Is For Strangers by NATHAN JOLLY I am book-shopping to fill a few hours before I meet Mickey at her place of work — a coffee shop in the city that makes coffee far too hot to drink quickly. If...
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