Women We Read This Week
Palmer’s piece begins with a family on the run. It’s her family, but they have new names and are not sure where they’re headed.
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Women We Read This Week
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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On Reading a Killer’s Manifesto
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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Documentary: If Images Could Fill Our Empty Spaces
Alice Driver, one of Vela’s staff writers, recently completed her first documentary, If Images Could Fill Our Empty Spaces. The film explores the complicated…
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Women We Read This Week
Amy Wallace’s “A Very Dangerous Boy” in GQ The theme of this week’s reads for me was Nazism, or rather the insidious way Nazism…
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Still Moments in Vampire Town
There’s this moment of still right before it happens.” The first time, she was in a car. A man came to the window, reached in and held a machete under her friend’s chin.
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Lessons of Grief
The day that it happened, the United States Postal Service unveiled The Simpson’s collectors’ set—a five-stamp commemorative booklet featuring…
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Who Made this Grave
One day, in late October, my son and I left his Mexican preschool and wandered up the Calzada toward Morelia’s pink stone aqueduct.
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