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My Only Synesthesia

From a manuscript in progress. I used to think my grandmother peed pink. I would think it sitting on the toilet, hers, I was sure she had visited last. When…

Completely Hazardous Experiments

by Sallie Tisdale,

My father’s mercury

Fortune’s Prime

by Aryn Kyle,

Years later, my grandmother would still tell people that I learned to swim in a movie star’s pool, though she always said this with the same slanted tone and pinched…

The Case Against Children

by Elizabeth Barber,

Among the antinatalists

The Egg

by Sanaë Lemoine,

Our Pierre

by Cormac James,

From Trondheim, which was published last month by Bellevue Literary Press. On the day their son was going to die, Lil had given herself the task of carrying forty-plus sacks…

Destined for Export

by Harper’s Magazine,

Family history: the phenomenon of widespread, wrongful international adoption in Guatemala, and its long shadow

Destined for Export

by Rachel Nolan,

The troubled legacy of Guatemalan adoptions

Opportunity Cost

by Mitchell S. Jackson,

From Survival Math, which will be published in March by Scribner. Jackson is an associate professor of writing at New York University and the author of The Residue Years. He…

The Minds of Others

by David Bromwich, Garth Greenwell, Hanif Abdurraqib, Kelly Clancy, Laila Lalami, Mychal Denzel Smith, T. M. Luhrmann,

The art of persuasion in the age of Trump

Within Reach

by Nicole Pasulka,

The transgender community fights for health care

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My Only Synesthesia

Completely Hazardous Experiments

Fortune’s Prime

The Case Against Children

The Egg

Our Pierre

Destined for Export

Destined for Export

Opportunity Cost

The Minds of Others

Within Reach

February 2018

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