The New Yorker
A Botched Circumcision and Its Aftermath
14+ min · · The constant discomfort of a genital injury creates a covenant of pain. It is impossible to think about anything else. · Shared by 62, including Virginia Hughes, Julia Ioffe, Austin Kleon, Columbia University, John Schwartz, Rick Powell, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Andrew Sullivan
London Review of Books
Terry Castle · Desperately Seeking Susan: remembering Susan Sontag
19+ min · · Afew weeks ago I found myself scanning photographs of Susan Sontag into my screensaver file: a tiny head shot clipped from Newsweek; two that had appeared in the New York Times; another printed… · Shared by 9, including Rick Powell
The Paris Review
The Blind
20+ min · · During the 1980s, in California, a large number of Cambodian women went to their doctors with the same complaint: they could not see. The women were all war refugees. Before fleeing their homeland,… · Shared by 7, including Rick Powell
sydneyreviewofbooks.com
Tell-all | Eda Gunaydin on confession
19+ min · · The problem is I can’t make up my mind about confession. · Shared by 13, including Michael Seemann, Rick Powell, Mathew Ingram
The Paris Review
Good Boy
19+ min · · I’ve always had a problem with introductions. To me, they don’t matter. It’s either you know me or you don’t—you get? If you don’t, the main thing you need to know is that I am a hustler through and… · Shared by 10, including Olori’s Baby, Rick Powell
HuffPost
I'm 57 Years Old And My Father Just Disowned Me For Being Gay
7 min · · Shared by 10, including Rick Powell
commonwealmagazine.org
Drinking Alone
17+ min · · Moving to a Rust Belt town taught me that real solidarity is harder than it looks. · Shared by 18, including Rick Powell, Howard Getson, Dr. A.S. Barwich
Harper's Magazine
[Memoir] The Cancer Chair, by Christian Wiman
1 min · · Is suffering meaningless? · Shared by 7, including Rick Powell
Quillette
When I Was in Love with a Comparative Literature Student
20+ min · · She said she did not believe there was such a thing as love—not because she was embarrassed by sentimentality, but because Jacques Derrida had convinced her that language did not actually refer to an… · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell
Boston Review
Love One Another or Die
17+ min · · During the AIDS crisis, different contingents of the LGBTQ movement set aside their differences to prioritize mutual care. What can we learn from this strategy today? And why is it still so difficult… · Shared by 8, including Rick Powell
The Cut
What Should I Teach My Sons?
14+ min · · The masculine scripts of previous generations seem especially problematic today, in a world run by the aggressive and the bullying. · Shared by 24, including Rick Powell
n+1
Whores at the End of the World
18+ min · · Other workers I follow gloat about their strict adherence to social-distancing mandates, while simultaneously shaming others for continuing in-person work. This has become yet another class signifier… · Shared by 9, including Rick Powell
Boston Review
Ash Wednesday
20+ min · · “I’m known as a sex radical, but the fact is I felt there was a world of experience that had been slipping away.” · Shared by 6, including Rick Powell
Engadget
Qualcomm's new mobile chipsets pack more features for the non-5G crowd
2 min · · In other words, they're meant for most of the world. · Shared by 38, including Rick Powell, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
vqronline.org
The Ladder Up
20+ min · · I’ve wanted to evade geographic determinism, but we’re still on another island: all of you and all of us.– Manuel Ramos OteroFor many years, my Puerto Rican homeland was not the island but the fried… · Shared by 17, including Rick Powell, Howard Getson
The Guardian
If you can't stand the heat...
18+ min · · New York chef Anthony Bourdain has always been a buccaneer in the cauldron of the kitchen. Now he's reached the relative calm of a Park Avenue brasserie, but there have been some pretty rum joints… · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell