Housebound and Bored? Turn Yourself into a Human Guinea Pig
During a time of endless lockdowns, self-discovery sometimes means self-experimentation
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How Algorithms Are Changing What We Read Online
The AI of the internet determines what’s relevant. One day, it decided my work wasn’t
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Dancing Bear
In this memoir, a child and his family leave Lebanon for Athens
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Taking Hallucinogens with My Mom
When my mother was diagnosed with cancer, she didn’t want chemo. Instead, she tried every other potion under the sun
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How Euchre Healed My Family
We have played through illness, arguments, divorces, and death
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Seeing Myself in My Mother’s Addiction
In our struggles with sobriety, my mom and I were each other’s reflections
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How a Seventh-Century Irish Princess Got Me Back On a Plane
To overcome my fear of air travel, I turned to Saint Dymphna
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The Truth about Wanting to Die
Suicide is scary and messy and exhausting, Anna Mehler Paperny writes in her new book. And we need to be far more honest about it
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What I Learned From My Father’s Murder
I used to think that good things happened to good people. Then my dad was killed
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