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Why Men Are ‘Rawdogging’ Flights June 25, 2024
Everyone has their own tricks for staving off boredom on a long-haul flight. Some people load up on podcast episodes, others power through the available in-flight entertainment. But no one simply sits, staring silently at the real-time flight map on ...
Isn’t Willie Mays Wonderful? June 20, 2024
The sky seems a little less bright today. The music sounds just a bit bluer. The stars feel farther away. Willie Mays is gone.He stopped playing baseball more than fifty years ago, and yet you can see him, even if you never actually saw him. He’s cha...
Who’s Afraid of Christian Nationalism? June 12, 2024
Mark Hall, historian and author of Who’s Afraid of Christian Nationalism: Why Christian Nationalism Is Not an Existential Threat to America or the Church, was flying home on January 6th, 2021. During a layover, a reporter for the progressive Evangeli...
Flying Is Weird Right Now March 21, 2024
Somewhere over Colorado this weekend, while I sat in seat 21F, my plane began to buck, jostle, and rattle. Within seconds, the seat-belt indicator dinged as the pilot asked flight attendants to return to their seats. We were experiencing what I, a fr...
Worrying With Alexandra Tanner March 20, 2024
“‘Is this Deadliest Catch?’ ‘Na, but it’s kind of like it.’” It might not be the Bering Sea, but the stakes are life and death in Worry, the anxious, Internet-chatter-infused debut novel from Alexandra Tanner. When life on the couch in Brooklyn becom...
Fictionalizing the Real Stakes of the Ukrainian War March 04, 2024
Matt Gallagher, a U.S. Army veteran and author of the novels Youngblood and Empire City, first traveled to Ukraine in February 2022 to train civil volunteers how to defend themselves against Russia’s invasion. He had joined fellow veterans and scribe...
