Shouts & Murmurs
Worried About the Election? Apply for Citizenship Now!
See if you have what it takes to be a proud Elbonian.
By Wendi Aarons and Johanna Gohmann
Writing Prompts for New Parents
Write a story about an underground tunnel that leads someplace unexpected while you sit between a radiator and a diaper pail.
By Cora Frazier
Your iCloud Storage Is Full! Here’s Why
Pictures of your pets, hundreds of voice memos, thousands of accidental screenshots, and other items of questionable value.
By Ginny Hogan and Julia Edelman
Influencers I’d Actually Want Influencing Me
Jeremy Allen White doing literally anything.
By Irving Ruan and Ellis Rosen
Answers to “Where Are You From?,” Translated
“The City”: New York City, obviously. “New York City”: I grew up in Seattle and moved to Brooklyn two months ago.
By Tom Ellison
Bot Therapy
He was a widower who had lost his wife to cancer and his only son in a hideous boating accident. He worked in a bunker in Paris. I took the bait.
By Mary Norris
My Strict Morning Routine
Before getting up, I like to lie under the covers for thirty minutes meditating, which is really just a fancy word for “falling back asleep.”
By Graeme Carey
A Quick Refresher on the High-School Math You’ve Forgotten
It’s good to know pi to at least twenty decimal places, in case a math sergeant ever asks you to drop and give them twenty digits of pi.
By Adam Douglas Thompson
Choose Your Own Adventure: Starting a Garden
What with all the flowers, you’ve now got a bee problem. How do you handle this?
By Bryn Durgin