Ranked #1
Morgan Jerkins: Wandering In Strange Lands
Morgan Jerkins: Wandering In Strange Lands
Have you ever signed up for one of those ancestry sites, or maybe sent in a sample of your saliva and received DNA resul... Read more
2 Mar 2021
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29mins
Ranked #2
Calvin Baker: A More Perfect Reunion
Calvin Baker: A More Perfect Reunion
Americans have been raised on a system of myths about race. We’ve invented stories to explain what we don’t understand, ... Read more
16 Feb 2021
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29mins
Ranked #3
Nicole Dennis-Benn: Patsy
Nicole Dennis-Benn: Patsy
The world puts you in a box -- geography, social class, family dynamics, gender, all things you’re born into with no say... Read more
2 Feb 2021
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29mins
Ranked #4
Roxane Gay & Tracy Lynne Oliver: The Sacrifice of Darkness
Roxane Gay & Tracy Lynne Oliver: The Sacrifice of Darkness
Have you ever felt like you’re in a tunnel trying to dig your way out and are just getting nowhere? Like there’s not eve... Read more
19 Jan 2021
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30mins
Ranked #5
Rumaan Alam: Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam: Leave the World Behind
Want to get away from it all? Maybe rent a house somewhere remote, with no access to the internet, overlooking the woods... Read more
22 Dec 2020
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30mins
Ranked #6
Lynn Steger Strong: Want
Lynn Steger Strong: Want
Time to forget the way too familiar depictions of female friendship that lean on thread-worn stereotypes: the back-stabb... Read more
24 Nov 2020
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30mins
Ranked #7
Karen Russell: Sleep Donation
Karen Russell: Sleep Donation
Have you had trouble sleeping lately? Did you take a pill for it? What if sleeping pills no longer worked and your insom... Read more
27 Oct 2020
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27mins
Ranked #8
Steven Berglas: Stay Hungry and Kick Burnout in the Butt
Steven Berglas: Stay Hungry and Kick Burnout in the Butt
Are you exhausted? Does this pandemic and political hellscape feel like a job you’re not allowed to quit? In Stay Hungry... Read more
6 Oct 2020
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22mins
Ranked #9
Claudia Rankine: Just Us
Claudia Rankine: Just Us
The United States is experiencing a time of reckoning, but too often it seems like we’re all talking past each another o... Read more
22 Sep 2020
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27mins
Ranked #10
Susan Burton: Empty
Susan Burton: Empty
Sometimes we hold a secret inside that feels so big and so overwhelming that it distorts the way we see and move through... Read more
15 Sep 2020
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27mins