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I Can't Stop Watching TikToks Of People Getting Dressed Up
I miss putting on clothes and feeling like a person. But at least I can still watch other people do it.
Shannon Keating
Audiobooks Are — And I Can't Stress This Enough — Saving My Sanity During COVID-19
Being a mother during a pandemic made reading almost impossible. Then I started listening.
Arianna Rebolini
Here Are Some Great Virtual Book Events Happening This Week
Readings from the year's best short stories, a panel on feminist YA fiction, tons of events and deals for Indie Bookstore Day, and much more.
Arianna Rebolini
Pussies Are The Stars Of The Summer
Thanks to songs like "WAP," we're moving from merely accepting our pussies to celebrating them in their untameable glory.
Lauren Strapagiel
10 Scary Books Every Horror Lover Needs To Read
Cannibals in Argentina, man-eating shape-shifters in India, vampires in Ontario, and more.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
To Be Black In This Country Is To Live A Life Of Trespass
Wandering around the abandoned Pittsburgh of my youth instilled a desire to go wherever I wanted — even as a Black man living in America.
Elwin Cotman
I’m Alone In My House Crying Over Billie Eilish’s New Song
The 18-year-old phenom wrote a gorgeous ballad turned bop over just two days in quarantine.
Shannon Keating
Here Are Some Great Virtual Book Events Happening This Week
Chanel Miller in conversation with Rebecca Solnit, Nnedi Okorafor on her debut middle grade novel, a two-day event filled with star-studded panels, and more.
Arianna Rebolini
I Went To Fire Island Over July 4th Weekend. Viral Photos Don’t Tell The Whole Story.
Videos circulating around social media depicted Fire Island on July 4th as a mess of drug-addled disregard for social distancing. It’s more complicated than that.
Ty Mitchell
How Cardi B And Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” Flipped The Script
The hilariously profane song and music video are subversive in so many different ways.
Niela Orr
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Tomi Obaro
Dinesh D’Souza’s Attacks On Kamala Harris Are Part Of A Bigger Problem In The Indian Community
As an Indian man, D’Souza has the privilege of appealing to white conservatives by being the minority in the room willing to attack Black people.
Scaachi Koul
Here's An Excerpt From The Dystopian Cli-Fi "The New Wilderness." Read Along With The BuzzFeed Book Club.
In this excerpt from The New Wilderness, the group tries to ford a dangerous river.
Diane Cook
The Utter Helplessness Of Looking For A Job In The Middle Of A Pandemic
I have gone through the five stages of grief, in varying degrees, with every rejection - denial, anger, indifference, acceptance, and moving on. And still I have persisted, despite a heaviness consistently weighing on me.
Nectar in a Sieve
Here Are The Virtual Book Events You Can Check Out This Week
Brit Bennett in conversation with Wayétu Moore, jokes from Mike Birbiglia, a Saturday jam-packed with romance, and much more.
Arianna Rebolini
10 Great Books That Are Out In Paperback This Month
André Aciman's follow-up to Call Me By Your Name, Rivers Solomon's deep-sea novella, an anthology of essays to mothers, and more.
Arianna Rebolini
We Aren’t Holding The Right People Responsible For Cancel Culture
The way we talk on the internet is broken, but users are not the ones who broke it — tech companies did that, and they did it for profit.
Elamin Abdelmahmoud
"He Asked If I Knew How I Was Going To Die. He Said It Would Be Real Peaceful."
In a haunting excerpt from Natasha Trethewey's memoir, Memorial Drive, Trethewey recounts the first time her stepfather tried to kill her mother.
Natasha Trethewey
Behind The Campy Cult Classic That Captured Bloody Teen Girl Rage
Twenty years after the Canadian horror flick Ginger Snaps introduced the world to an iconic teen girl werewolf, there's still no character quite like her.
Lauren Strapagiel
If You Like “Normal People,” You’ll Love “Luster”
This darkly comic book about a Black twentysomething woman dating a white guy in an open marriage has been getting a ton of buzz.
Tomi Obaro
Here Are The Virtual Book Events You Can Check Out This Week
Livestream discussions with Morgan Jerkins, John Waters, Raven Leilani, Riley Sager, and many more.
Arianna Rebolini
“I’m Going To Be Honest With You,” The Grandfather Told Police. “I Killed A Lot.”
In this excerpt adapted from <i>The Devil’s Harvest</i>, Jessica Garrison reveals how a contract killer’s 35-year run of murder and mayhem in California’s Central Valley reflects a far more widespread injustice: The institutions that were supposed to protect a community failed it again and again.
Jessica Garrison
Working Parenthood Is A Terrible Deal Right Now
Thanks to COVID, that fleeting dread most working parents experience now and then about being an utter failure is the new status quo.
Venessa Wong
Answer 8 Questions And We'll Tell You Which New Book To Read This Month
So many great releases. Where should you begin?
Arianna Rebolini
"There Are People Who Find Black People Solving Crime Unbelievable": An Interview With Alyssa Cole
Chatting with the prolific writer about gentrification, anti-Black racism, and her thriller debut, When No One Is Watching.
Arianna Rebolini
Why Does “Indian Matchmaking” Make My Culture Seem So Burdensome?
Shows like Indian Matchmaking and Family Karma are entertaining, but when will South Asian people get reality TV that doesn't depict our culture as being a drag?
Scaachi Koul
The Case For Facial Feminization Surgery
To make something like FFS truly accessible — and to give trans people true agency over it — requires completely reimagining the capitalist medical system.
Alex V Green
Lisa Rinna’s Shamelessness Saved “The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills”
The soap star and QVC queen's utter shamelessness has revived the franchise.
Alessa Dominguez
The Future Of True Crime Will Have To Be Different
While I’ll Be Gone in The Dark and Unsolved Mysteries make for compelling TV, it’s time for true crime to move past white middlebrow comfort food.
Sarah Weinman
Mothers Are Blamed For Everything, And I Was Tired Of Being Blamed
In this short story from Sansei and Sensibility, a woman has to clean up her late aunt's apartment.
Karen Tei Yamashita
