My unwavering commitment to the equality of all people, to dismantling the hegemony that has kept so many oppressed for so long, is my raison d’êtr... | Continue reading
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In honor of the release of Dear McSweeney’s: Two Decades of Letters to the Editor from Writers, Readers, and the Occasional Bewildered Consumer, cr... | Continue reading
1. Lily passed peacefully, immediately after her therapist finally laughed at one of her jokes.2. After a valiant battle with imposter syndrome, O... | Continue reading
Originally published October 1, 2019.- - -Amanda Uhle spoke with Shelly Oria on the WCBN podcast Living Writers about the collection Oria edited, ... | Continue reading
Here’s the thing about men. We’re fearless.We punch through BRICKS with our BARE HANDS. We ride DIRT BIKES and eat SALTY MEATS. We’re also not eve... | Continue reading
Thank you, everyone, for completing the Faculty Success Survey. During these challenging times, we understand that many of you are feeling great st... | Continue reading
God came to Adam and Eve and said that one of them would have to bear children. Adam puffed his chest out and answered in a tone of cocky confidenc... | Continue reading
In the current era of hyper-partisanship, many have taken to using out-of-context quotes by us and asking what we would think of pretty much any po... | Continue reading
When I was in college I found my way to the study of history because I’m interested in what and how we remember, but I found my way to poetry—or po... | Continue reading
- - -Preorder Kimberly Harrington’s new book BUT YOU SEEMED SO HAPPY. You can also buy a version of this BINGO card at Sapling Press. | Continue reading
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Art by Fritz Lang- - -This piece, selected by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the 2021 O. Henry Prize, originally appeared in McSweeney’s 55. To get... | Continue reading
This piece, selected by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the 2021 O. Henry Prize, originally appeared in McSweeney’s 56. To get stories like this on yo... | Continue reading
The Sixth Circle of Hell will be closed Tuesdays until further notice. Due to government handouts, no one wants to dangle you heretics over lakes o... | Continue reading
Heat, in Sandra Lim’s stunning new collection The Curious Thing, is understandable. Can be described. “Our bodies swelled and stank,” she writes of... | Continue reading
Dear BIPOCStudent6,Congratulations! You have been accepted into A Musical Theater Program That Is Now Accepting Multiple People of Color! Yes, yes... | Continue reading
Dear class,I am extremely pleased with the work you all were able to accomplish this semester. I know we all faced some adversity over the past fe... | Continue reading
Years ago, as many of you know, I, Agatha Trunchbull, was driven from my career in education by a telekinetic pest with a vendetta against me. I ha... | Continue reading
Muslims will “never forget” 9/11 for very different reasons. The fact that even writing that sentence feels blasphemous speaks to the guilt that Mu... | Continue reading
I hadn’t the slightest idea that my life would change. It was two weeks into my freshman year of college. I was living away from home for the first... | Continue reading
1.In a remote community in nineteenth-century Sweden, a husband and wife—the grocer Johan (Max von Sydow) and the pianist Karin (Liv Ullmann)—deba... | Continue reading
Teachers: COVID has thinned the applicant pool for administrator positions. YOU can fill the need for fresh educational professionals TODAY. Simply... | Continue reading
As the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks approaches, I recognize that our country should learn about those tragic events, but I take i... | Continue reading
“Despite the irony of furious takedowns and defensiveness inspired by a show about treating people with respect, Ted Lasso has become a shibboleth ... | Continue reading
Neo, this is your last chance. You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take th... | Continue reading
There are many threads and styles and moods in Fady Joudah’s Tethered to Stars—the book is a constellation of these things—but at one point a gorge... | Continue reading
We’re a team.We stick together.We root for each other.When life’s tough, we don’t quit until we punch it in the end zone.We call football “foot... | Continue reading
The Clif Bar company’s motto is Make It Good. A past one was Feed Your Adventure. These taglines don’t accord with my lived experience of scarfing ... | Continue reading
I’m just a lowly seventeenth-century British sailor, not some fancy-pants seventeenth-century British sawbones, but there’s one thing I know for su... | Continue reading
Performance review: the final frontier. This is the employee review of Commander William T. Riker of the USS Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to... | Continue reading
PART IShort Answer Questions1. Some who become ill with COVID-19 need to be intubated and placed on ventilators. Intubation is a painful, invasiv... | Continue reading
Under the pressure to meet someone’s definition of the hip or the relevant, much contemporary poetry can seem skittish, ungrounded, neither here no... | Continue reading
Hi team,I hope this email finds you well. By now, you have no doubt read the memo from Corporate announcing that we’re going to return to the offi... | Continue reading
Hi, if you are reading this essay then congratulations, you are still alive. And if you are alive, then you have either gotten the COVID-19 vaccine... | Continue reading
Hi, if you are reading this essay then congratulations, you are still alive. And if you are alive, then you have either gotten the COVID-19 vaccine... | Continue reading
Dear Occupant —We have been trying to reach you regarding your outstanding Armageddon response.We see from your account that you originally recei... | Continue reading
Do not feed the duck.Do not feed the duck bread. Bread offers little nutritional value for ducks, and the empty calories often cause bloat. Worse,... | Continue reading
I, poor miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwrecked during a dreadful storm in the offing, came on shore on this dismal, unfortunate island, which... | Continue reading
“Legislation banning abortions after about six weeks is now the law of the land in Texas, effectively ending Roe v. Wade protections in the state.”... | Continue reading
The Texas state government passed 666 “newfangled” laws in 2021—some in the dead of night—many of which take effect today. Here’s a guide (written ... | Continue reading
I forgot to have my first-year college students renounce Jesus in their initial essay of the semester. I guess I wasn’t paying enough attention to ... | Continue reading
I got my first real six-stringBought it at the five-and-dimePlayed it till my fingers bledIt was the summer of ’69Summer of 1969: Man has walke... | Continue reading
I see you stopping even though your dog wants to keep walking. I see the way you look inside that little house on a pole in front of our big house ... | Continue reading
I’d like to welcome this year’s new adjunct faculty to our university. You will need to log on to our web portal as soon as possible in order to up... | Continue reading
“Who’s to blame for the Afghanistan chaos? Remember the war’s cheerleaders… Today the media are looking for scapegoats, but 20 years ago they helpe... | Continue reading