The Protagonist Is Never in Control

In your first memory of him, you are four years old, and you are being suffocated.…

“Mr. Lucky” Didn’t Know Who He Was

Arguably Hollywood’s handsomest leading man, Cary Grant was a big box-office draw: tall, sophisticated, devilishly debonair…

Fluttering Bird

It’s not my business to like or dislike my students, just to teach them English. But…

Countdown

There are some icky parts,” wrote my friend from Michigan in early July, where, at the…

Strangers in India

In Thrity Umrigar’s tenth novel, Museum of Failures, Remy Wadia returns to India to care for…

Congrats, Hun

This post is part of Avidly’s “Too Real” series, guest edited by Carissa M. Harris: a…

Atocha

Leaving the Atocha Station is a 2011 book by Ben Lerner about his year in Madrid. I…

Are you half?

This essay is part of Avidly’s “Too Real” series, guest edited by Carissa M. Harris: a…

Finish Line

This essay is part of Avidly’s “Too Real” series, guest edited by Carissa M. Harris: a…

That’s a Little Bitch

This essay is part of Avidly’s “Too Real” series, guest edited by Carissa M. Harris: a…