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MIRRORED MEZZANINE

An excerpt from M. Randal O’Wain’s new essay collection Meander Belt . He smiles when the lock clicks free. I know now the pleasures of pride; I can imagine the sense of accomplishment this...

By M. Randal O’Wain

AMERICAN FACTORY: CAUGHT BY A STORY

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. Full Frame artistic director Sadie Tillery talks to filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert about how they started out, their collaboration,...

By Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, and Sadie Tillery

Film

Much to Carry: Remembering My Mother’s Catfish Stew

A video supplement to “My Mother’s Catfish Stew” by John T. Edge, published in the fall 2019 issue.

By Ethan Payne

SON

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. A good friend and former coach of mine once told me that having a girl was easier because there weren’t any expectations. Like, his daughter...

By Eli Cranor

THE HYSTERICAL SOCIETY

An exclusive premiere from Rachel Grimes’s new album, The Way Forth. During the emotional process of moving her parents into nursing homes some years back, Grimes and her brother became the executors...

By Oxford American

AMONG THE LAESTRYGONIANS

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. This Having-a-Baby is proving harder than I remembered. In part because it is harder the second time around. Because I am not wise, I had...

By Christopher Brunt

MTV: MUSIC TELEVISION PRESENTS WARREN ZEVON

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. What is it about this malignancy that pulls me like the moon pulls on the tides? Why does he live in my head? Maybe I am a soft touch. Maybe...

By Elizabeth Nelson

PACKING THE HURRICANE KIT

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. Church steeples still lay on the ground, blue tarps turned homes into extensions of the sea. A human’s arms cannot encompass that loss. We...

By Katy Simpson Smith

Web Feature

Behind The Skillet: Meet Cosmo The Mascot

EVERYTHING IS FINE HERE

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. I have seen how engaged service of a certain kind can result in being treated to a top tier dining production, and gotdamn, that is a show.

By Osayi Endolyn

ON EATING LOTUS

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. My family has always believed that American cooking is basically about following scientific steps in order to recreate a taste, but that Chinese...

By Sini Nina Chen

STORMS

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. Over the last three years, Alex and I have spent a total of eight summer nights in the Carlton Marion Inn. It’s a tidy motel with a gravel...