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Weary Oracle

By Dawn Lundy Martin. Martin is the author of four books of poetry, including Good Stock, which will be published by Coffee House Press in 2016. She teaches at the…

Blanket Security

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

By Thomas Chatterton Williams. Williams is the author of the memoir Losing My Cool, published by Penguin Press in 2010.

A Kind of Grace

by Hannah Black,

By Hannah Black. Black is an artist and writer from the U.K. She is the author of Dark Pool Party, which was published last month by Dominica/Arcadia Missa.

Common Cause

by Alix Rule,

By Alix Rule. Rule is a doctoral student in sociology at Columbia University.

Political Correction

by Osita Nwanevu,

By Osita Nwanevu. Nwanevu is a recent graduate of the University of Chicago and the editor of the South Side Weekly.

We Out Here

by Wesley Yang,

By Wesley Yang. Yang has written for New York magazine, the New York Times, and n+1. He is at work on his first book.

Signed and Dated

by Erica Boas, Jason A. Laker,

From a relationship contract created by a first-year male undergraduate and signed by him and a girlfriend. The contract is part of ongoing research for Consent Stories, a project by…

Parties Foul

by Laura Bates,

From themes of parties that have been held by college students in the United States and the U.K., collected by Laura Bates. Her book Everyday Sexism will be published in…

Never Never Man

by Laurencia Perales Blum,

From “Severe Growing-Up Phobia,” a paper that was coauthored by Laurencia Perales Blum and published in Case Reports in Psychiatry, in 2014. The paper discusses a Mexican boy who suffered…

White Rhino, Namibia, 2015

by Maroesjka Lavigne,

The Hidden Rivers of Brooklyn

by Elizabeth Royte,

From behind a parapet on the tower of Litchfield Villa, the Italianate mansion that marks the western edge of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, I was barely able to make out —…