To accompany last week’s content on Emma Straub’s “The Vacationers” (Author Q&A and Book Review), and to celebrate the unofficial start […]
Read moreWould You Marry a Girl Who Practiced Sports?
Where women are left when we talk about sports development in the Middle East. by Alex Baumhardt In mid-April, Saudi Arabia’s […]
Read moreWhither women’s rights?
In a follow up to her longform feature, “The Man Who Stopped Traffick”, Paromita Pain highlights the biggest issues facing women’s safety […]
Read moreThe Compass Rose: Honolulu, Antarctica
Outside of the tiny town of El Bolsón in the Argentine Patagonia, five hours down a rocky path to a canyon […]
Read moreThe Compass Rose: Tell me what you think of that mountain.
I spent the summer after I turned 20 sleeping with a can of bear spray. I took off for Alaska alone […]
Read moreThe Compass Rose: Skipping in Reykjavik
We road our bicycles around like bandits under the streetlights of central Reykjavik. The Scot had 24 plastic bottles of Redbull […]
Read moreFrom Austen to Zola: “Reading Lolita in Tehran” in England
For the past eight years, my life has consisted of stone-faced immigration officers and service as a teabag mule. At the age of […]
Read moreThe Compass Rose: Hot Child in the City
Photo at the Dia:Beacon art gallery in New York City. By Gabrielle Lipton. Being in New York City tends to bring […]
Read moreThe Man Who Stopped Traffick
An investigative profile by Paro Pain. When I call Ajeet Singh, he is busy. It’s late in the evening and he […]
Read moreJoanna: Hearing It From A Woman
Nine of the Women for Avenir, plus the cooperative’s counselor, Emelienne (in purple). Kigali, Rwanda. June 2012. Immediately after I returned […]
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