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  1. nostalgia
    Writing Yourself Back Into the PastWatching Aftersun unlocked a new way of understanding my parents.
    By Ling Ling Huang
  2. tiktok
    TikTok’s Lesbian Breakup Curse Is RealAnd it took my relationship with it.
    By Emma Turetsky
  3. summer preview
    Summer TV Used to Mean Something, Damn ItOnce upon a time, television programming mirrored the rhythms of life. Now it’s become the calendar version of the endless scroll.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  4. work
    My Breakup With Those 3 Little Words: ‘Happy to Help!’The phrase defined my ambitions — then those ambitions changed.
    By Alison B. Hart
  5. essay
    The Many Lives of Janet JacksonHow many ways will her story be told without seeing the full picture?
    By Shamira Ibrahim
  6. book review
    Edith Schloss, 20th-Century WomanIn her book The Loft Generation, a fixture of the midcentury New York art scene gets a long-overdue introduction.
    By Jamie Hood
  7. holidays
    Is There Any Way to Avoid Getting Gifts You Hate?From tantrums, to brutal honesty, to acceptance, a few suggestions.
    By Maggie Lange
  8. self
    The Fantasy of HealingWriter Vanessa Angélica Villarreal found life after divorce where she least expected it — as a witcher in a fantasy role-playing video game.
    By Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
  9. remembrances
    The Naomi Shelton We KnewAn evening remembering the late Gospel Queen, village voice, and forever friend.
    By Saki Knafo
  10. 9/11: 20 years later
    Ramy Captured the Paradox of Being Muslim American After 9/11A revisitation of “Strawberries,” Ramy Youssef’s examination of how to come of age in a country that demands your culture’s disavowal.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  11. essay
    The Smith Family Legacy Was Built for WillowWillow Smith is an oddity in music, and not just because of the pedigree.
    By Craig Jenkins
  12. the first rule
    Fight Club Spoke to MeTwenty-five years later, a novel that shouldn’t have resonated still does.
    By Isle McElroy
  13. essay
    I Don’t See an End to ThisDaBaby’s vile remarks about gay sex and AIDS mixed with the furor over Lil Nas X’s “Industry Baby” have made for the eye of a perfect shitstorm.
    By Craig Jenkins
  14. review
    We’re Still Getting Woodstock ’99 WrongHBO’s Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage documentary feels drunk on chaos.
    By Craig Jenkins
  15. essay
    Just Another Morning in Good Ol’ AmericaMorgan Wallen’s GMA interview didn’t so much begin a redemption tour as it did extend a winning streak that’s gone strong for decades.
    By Andrea Williams
  16. essay
    What Reckoning?Country music is exactly where it was a year ago, when the dam on the industry’s ocean of racism supposedly broke. Duh.
    By Andrea Williams
  17. zack snyder’s director’s cut
    What Does Justice League Mean for the Director’s Cut?The lengthy HBO Max movie is the latest in a hallowed tradition that has unleashed more than just Zack Snyder’s vision.
    By Iana Murray
  18. culture
    Movies Seen Alone in New York City, ReviewedA diary of a former pastime.
    By Lindsay Zoladz
  19. lady a
    If Country Music Wants to Reckon With Its Racism, Look Deeper Than the Bad NamesEven if we are to give “Lady A” credit for their gesture, we must also acknowledge that it should be but the catalyst of far deeper work.
    By Andrea Williams
  20. the grammys
    The Grammys Still Don’t Get ItRegardless of genre or language, if we’re going to do away with the term urban, we actually have to do away with it.
    By Gary Suarez
  21. radio vulture
    Stan Culture Is Due a Reckoning. So Are the Celebrities They Worship.Last week was evidence of a slow and peculiar shift in the relationship between fans and the musicians they love over the last decade.
    By Craig Jenkins
  22. reviews
    Diddy’s Guided Meditation Is … the Best Thing I’ve Ever Heard?I had my doubts. But he helped me find serenity in under ten minutes.
    By Amanda Arnold
  23. parenting
    Perhaps It’s Time to Consider UnschoolingThings are falling apart, so why not take these weeks or months to let your ­children — and yourselves — think and learn outside the academic box.
    By Astra Taylor
  24. Truth, Lies, and Videotape at the Kawasaki KmartJailed in Japan for a crime she didn’t commit, a young American teacher learns the meaning of the phrase sho ga nai — “It can’t be helped.”
    By Kelly Luce
  25. the outer boroughs
    What Is the Bronx, Anyway?New York’s most elusive borough lags far behind in the city’s identity sweepstakes. But why?
    By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
  26. gun control
    Divisiveness Is the Only Constant in America’s Gun-Control DebateA moral or political consensus doesn’t exist anywhere — not even in Newtown. 
    By Lisa Miller
  27. first person
    I Gained So Much Weight I Didn’t Recognize MyselfWhat it’s like to go from a size 4 to a size 12 in three months.
    By Anonymous As told to Erica Schwiegershausen
  28. Are Threesomes a Gateway Drug to Open Relationships?“Five years into our relationship, I let my boyfriend sleep with another woman.”
    By Laura Parker
  29. essay
    Abdul-Rahman Kassig Is an American Taken Hostage by ISIS. He Is Also My Friend.I haven’t seen him in more than a year. I may never again because ISIS fighters are threatening to kill him.
    By Sulome Anderson
  30. This Anti-Cellulite Massage Made Me CryFrance’s latest way of making us feel bad.
    By Alice Cavanagh
  31. bag dump
    Ditching My Purse Freed My SpiritFreedom from schlepping. 
    By Mallory Rice
  32. how hip-hop failed america
    Questlove on When Black Loses Its CoolThe third in a weekly series of six essays.
    By Questlove
  33. how hip-hop failed america
    Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems: How Hip-Hop Failed Black America, Part IIThe second in a weekly series of six essays.
    By Questlove
  34. guest essay
    When the People Cheer: How Hip-Hop Failed Black AmericaThe first in a weekly series of six essays.
    By Questlove
  35. oscar bait
    Where Are the Serious Movies About Non-Suffering Black People?The relentless violence and subjugation depicted in movies about the black experience is exhausting and no longer breaks new ground.
    By Roxane Gay
  36. essay
    Is Lady Gaga’s Uplifting Message Diminishing Her Gaga-ness?Inarguably positive but inoffensively mainstream, her ‘Born this Way’ preaching detracts from her breakout avant-garde persona.
    By Chris Norris
  37. essay
    Why the Death of Celebrity Rehab Veteran Mike Starr Makes Laughing at Charlie Sheen HardA writer who observed the heroin-tortured musician during his ‘Rehab’ shoot sees there are predictable consistencies in the behavior of the addicted.
    By Chris Norris