Features & Essays
Lessons of a Forgotten Campus Scandal (Compact)
On Finding the Strangeness in the Mundane, and Vice Versa (LitHub)
Eight Novels Exploring the Crimes of Young Women (CrimeReads)
On Friendship as a Source of Intrigue in Fiction (The Strand)
How the Other Half Goes to College (Jacobin)
How to Be Disciplined About Your Creative Projects (Lifehacker)
Stop blaming the hipsters: Here's how gentrification really happens (Brick Underground)
How did Long Island become so segregated--and what can be done about it? (Brick Underground)
The Irony of STEM Funding (The Atlantic)
Why the Rorschach Test Is So Big in Japan (The Atlantic)
Overrated Tourist Attractions--And Why We Keep Going to Them Anyhow (Jezebel)
The Disappearing Ama: Japan's Tough, Topless, Free-Diving Mermaids (Jezebel)
Opinion
Enough With The Flight Shaming, Already! (The Nation)
Bernie Sanders Could Be the Best Arts President in US History (Jacobin)
Criticism
“Mentions”: The Stand, The Memory Police, The Expanse (The Drift)
Actually, an All-Girls 'Lord of the Flies' Could Be a Good Idea (Electric Literature)
The Trouble With True Detective (Jacobin)
Me and My Shadow (Full Stop)
Under the Skin: David Cronenberg's CONSUMED (Full Stop)
Interviews
Spies Worth Seeking Out: Author Lauren Wilkinson’s Favorite Tales of Intrigue (RESIDE)
Author Kelly Link’s Favorite Short Story Collections (RESIDE)
Tayari Jones' Favorite Summer Reads (RESIDE)
Terry Crews, the Feminist: "Millions Have Died Because of Male Pride" (Dame)
Shelly Oria: Nationality Meets Sexuality Meets Reality (Los Angeles Review of Books)
Personal essays
My mother and grandmother are proof that talking openly about sex is a smart parenting tactic (The Washington Post)
Islanders Like Me (Underwater New York)