Her name echoes Eve, the first woman of one enduring creation story. She herself—a farm kid from somewhere near the Russia-Kazakhstan border—is the first person on Mars, as followers of the Twitter account “Evghenia Is on Mars” have been told, 140 characters of patchy English at a time.
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Somewhere near Kazakhstan, the 1980s: At nighttime, surrounded by goats, a little girl lay on her back in a pasture and pointed a small telescope toward the stars.
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When Villard Books, a Random House imprint, published Janice Erlbaum’s second memoir, Have You Found Her (2008), Vanity Fair threw her a party at…
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“The comments are a shit show.” This from a friend on Facebook, a warning perhaps or an expression of vicarious disappointment. “I read the first one and threw my phone across the room.”
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While riding my university shuttle, I used to stare at women’s hair. They were mostly young white women like me, who would sit in rows facing each other at the front of the bus, compulsively checking their phones.
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Meredith Broussard’s “Why Poor Schools Can’t Win at Standardized Testing” on The Atlantic Forget for a moment the irony of an article critiquing financial…
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Cornelia Hesse-Honegger’s “Why I Traveled the World Hunting for Mutant Bugs” on Nautilus In this thought-provoking piece on her role as a scientific illustrator,…
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Over Memorial Day weekend, I enjoyed an idyllic three days with friends. When they left on Tuesday, I returned to the world…
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I’ve just completed my first year as a full-time lecturer teaching writing at a state university, and this is, undoubtedly, the most anticipated summer…
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I was walking back from the grocery store, loaded down with bags, when a man came up the sidewalk. I looked down and away.
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Ruth Fowler’s “The Loneliest and Saddest Kind” on Guernica It was fitting that I should find Ruth Fowler‘s essay this week, as I was…
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It was eight minutes before the taxi arrived to take my husband to the airport. We were in the bathroom, throwing toiletries into a tartan sponge bag.
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