by Antonio Lenzo | Jul 21, 2023 | Essays, Essays 2023
The Most Alive Dead Band of All Eight years after their first tour in 2015, Dead & Company are calling it quits this summer. Their final shows are scheduled for July 14, 15, and 16 at San Francisco’s Oracle Park. The John Mayer–fronted reunion act, which includes...
by Tanya Shirazi Galvez | Jul 21, 2023 | Essays, Essays 2023
Still You have the same face. It’s as if she never left, says Tío Jorge as he pulls me in for an embrace in front of the El Salvador International Airport. His verbose laugh echoes my mother’s in Los Angeles. This familiarity in a stranger helps me lean into his...
by Carolyn Schweitzer | Jul 21, 2023 | Essays, Essays 2023
More Than Just Words and Numbers The snails were in different places. I knelt on Mrs. V.’s living room couch watching the tetras school around blue-finned guppies and yellow mollies in the fish tank. I frowned—there were more snails today. I tried to look through the...
by Sophia Kloster | Jul 21, 2023 | Essays, Essays 2023
My Body Can’t Be Trusted I was six years old when I got an insulin pump. My body was so small that we used a pink dog collar to secure the pump to my waist. I remember how heavy the piece of machinery felt hanging from the collar. I did a show-and-tell in my...
by Salwa Tareen | Jul 21, 2023 | Essays, Essays 2023
Of Lights Hours before the New Year, a blackout fell upon the neighborhood. Electricity outages, of course, are expected in Karachi. With the ongoing gas shortage, electricity was even more coveted. If “the light” went, so would the electric stovetop, the fan, the air...
by Billy Lezra | Jul 21, 2023 | Essays, Essays 2023
Damages Cleanse, tone, apply serum, moisturizer, rosehip oil—these were the five steps of my mother’s skincare routine. If you do this every day, you’ll look good as you age, she said. One, then two wrinkles bloomed between her eyebrows, like deep furrows farmers plow...
