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Down South

In June 1997, I boarded an all-night bus from the Port Authority to Asheville, North Carolina, with my friend Cynthia. We had no plan but to live there for the…

Buy the Numbers

by Colette Brooks,

From Trapped in the Present Tense, which will be published next month by Counterpoint Press. It’s possible to construct a statistical mosaic of American life out of the 332 million…

Home Country

by Héctor Tobar,

What does it mean to be Latino?

A Complicating Energy

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Elisa Gabbert

I never knew I needed you: the detrimental effects of isolation and the importance of strangers

A Complicating Energy

by Elisa Gabbert,

Notes on a year without strangers

Rumination

by Lucienne S. Bloch,

From “Inside Stories,” an essay published in the Winter 2021 issue of Five Points. I used to visit an elderly woman who lived in a single room in an apartment…

The Art of Losing

by James Pogue,

Can Democrats win back postindustrial America?

Freedom from Choice

by Pico Iyer,

By Pico Iyer, from A Beginner’s Guide to Japan, out this month from Knopf. Iyer, a British-American essayist and novelist, has lived in Nara, Japan, since 1992. Japan is the…

Stonewall at Fifty

by Alexander Chee, T Cooper, Garth Greenwell, Eileen Myles, Darryl Pinckney, Brontez Purnell, Michelle Tea, T Kira Madden,

Early in the morning on June 28, 1969, New York police raided the Stonewall Inn at 53 Christopher Street, the city’s most popular gay bar. The police had raided Stonewall…

We Were So Happy Then

by Lynn Freed,

Life in the new South Africa

The Death of a Once Great City

by Kevin Baker,

The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence

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Down South

Buy the Numbers

Home Country

A Complicating Energy

A Complicating Energy

Rumination

The Art of Losing

Freedom from Choice

Stonewall at Fifty

We Were So Happy Then

The Death of a Once Great City

July 2018

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