The passing of every person reduces me,
As I belong to the human race.
--John Donne
1,000,000 individuals from New York who have been disregarded.
Misplaced, unnoticed,…
Rather than replicating the exact words, one can rephrase the text to eliminate any signs of plagiarism while still preserving the context and semantic meaning. This can be done by…
Nikky Finney and Jericho Brown are two of the most renowned poets of their generation. Their works have been celebrated for their lyrical beauty and powerful messages of social justice,…
Ingrid Lafleur, the transformative Detroit-based artist, curator and political organizer, recently engaged in a lively conversation with Rasheedah Phillips, a Philadelphia-based lawyer, community organizer, and science-fiction writer.
The two discussed a…
Becoming a man is a major milestone in any person's life. It is a time of transition, of leaving childhood behind and learning to take on greater responsibility.Â
It is…
REACHING OUT FROM AFAR
In 2014, Jussi Tuovinen, an engineer from Helsinki, accepted a position at a research institution at Trinity College in Dublin. Being far from his wife and…
Jeannie Vanasco has written two unconventional memoirs that explore her life experiences. In her second work, Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl (2019), she interviews the…
I attended a graduate urban planning program, during which I researched the interplay between virtual and material spaces. When I started, Google Maps was just becoming a thing, and my…
In late May 2020, at the very beginning of the George Floyd protests, Niela Orr, one of The Believer's deputy editors, asked Ismail Muhammad, the magazine's criticism editor, for advice…
Fable came into the world climbing. After a monthlong gestation, she emerged blind and furless, an embryonic jelly bean endowed with little more than grasping claws and an instinctual map…
After I pee and wipe, I creep close, sit on my heels,
wanting to see the electric pinkness, but not wanting
to stroke the baby mouse’s nakedness or to grave it.
On the…
I first met Robert Thurman at a repurposed Boy Scout camp in the middle of the Michigan woods in the early ’90s. It was the annual summer retreat for the…
