Browsing Category Essays

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  Do’s Final Exit

  Cult leader or genial, self-deprecating, gentle old man?

  By Isaac Butler
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  Cyphers

  A teacher reflects on race, discipline, and the unwritten codes of the American education system.

  By Caitlyn Luce Christensen
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  Mini-Europe, Vol. III

  When you set out to prune an artificial flower and end up giving a fuzzy mane to Jesus Christ.

  By Patrick Gaughan
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  Mini-Europe, Vol. II: Mini-War

  "Are there more war reenactments than wars? Are there more plastic soldiers than soldiers?"

  By Patrick Gaughan
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  givesafe

  "What if our mothers told us it was up to us to decide when, and if, we felt like women."

  By Zinn Adeline
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  Mini-Europe, Vol. I

  "The large assaults the eye. It obstructs, resists a frame. The small invites noticing. Utopia through shrinkage."

  By Patrick Gaughan
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  #BlackAndBullied

  Bullied by black kids for acting white. Bullied by white kids for being black.

  By Kasai Rex
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  The Berlin Blues

  A dead friend. An orphaned novel. An escape to the playground on the Spree.

  By Travis Mushett
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  Filching Christopher Robin in the Shadow of Mount Rushmore

  A Confession of Theft on Stolen Land

  By Ian MacDougall
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  Pulp Nonfiction: Death (and Life) on Reality TV

  When murder reenactments remind you how to live.

  By Sally Howe
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  Piano Man

  On forcing 738 high school seniors to share a drink they call loneliness.

  By Lindsay Zoladz
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  Testosterone Cypionate

  "There was, for me (and perhaps most transgender guys), an unspoken need for hormones to be a kind of miracle cure."

  By John Chapman