Post- Magazine Features
knowing love [feature]
By Audrey Wijono | March 6It is May of 1981. Tempo Magazine, one of Indonesia’s largest weekly newspapers, has just published an article about a wedding. “Their affections for one another are a little excessive, even in front of all their guests,” the author writes, seemingly amused. “Bonnie is pinching their ‘husband’s’ ...
family ties [feature]
By Samira Lakhiani | February 28As my mom reads off every name, my sister and I try our hardest to commit them to memory. We are six and eight years old, excitedly staring at the family tree in front of us. It is astonishing and extensive, with some very familiar names and others that I have only heard of as characters from my parents’ ...
nollywood [feature]
By Ayoola Fadahunsi | February 21“I am a product of Nollywood and my loyalty remains unshaken.” -Genevieve Nnaji
treasure under our feet [feature]
By Sydney Pearson | February 7“I walk, all day, across the heaven-verging field.” - Mary Oliver, “Upstream”
Latest stories
these platonic loves [feature]
By Elena Jiang | December 6This summer, I started journaling more consistently, generating list after list to wrangle my otherwise incoherent jumble of thoughts—favorite songs of the month, all-nighters ranked from most-bad to sorta-fun, top five core memories, most transformative friendships. I lingered on the last one longer ...
deserted [feature]
By Ellyse Givens | November 29On my ninth birthday, my Grandpa Bill gifted me a copy of The Little Prince. I remember the cover with the blonde boy who stood amongst the stars, but I didn’t read the story until recently, when Bill sent a letter that reminded me of the image.
our first lives [feature]
By Audrey Wijono | November 16tw: body image, disordered eating/body image, some mention of gender dysphoria
breaking bread [feature]
By Samira Lakhiani | November 8Upon returning home from a family reunion trip two summers ago, I was welcomed back by the presence of two very conspicuous solid lines on the white plastic Covid-19 test in my hand. I had not (to my knowledge) had Covid since the pandemic had started. It was bound to happen at some point, I thought ...
send my love [feature]
By Ellyse Givens | November 1Nearly all seventeen species of penguins are intensely colonial, gathering in “great teeming masses” to court one another. To win a female’s affection, males swing their heads side to side or raise their flippers or throw their beaks to the sky to carol their best trills and squawks. Some gentoo ...
liebestraum and loss [feature]
By Sydney Pearson | October 25O lieb, solang du lieben kannst!
speaking in tongues [feature]
By Audrey Wijono | October 18After hundreds of years of disruption, displacement, and colonial violence in Indonesia, I’m learning Dutch. Rudimentary, garbled Dutch, but Dutch nonetheless.
write about it [feature]
By Ayoola Fadahunsi | October 4“And the winner of poetry interpretation is…”
the beginning, take two [feature]
By Cat Gao | September 27“‘I dream backwards now. You won’t believe how backwards you’ll dream someday.’”
on coastlines and other beginnings [feature]
By Elena Jiang | September 20“You’re you, you see, and nobody else. You are you, right?”
late february visitant [feature]
By Sydney Pearson | April 27“Get rid of death. Celebrate increase. Make it be spring.”
remembrance [feature]
By Audrey Wijono | April 20One year, my mother committed herself to scrapbooking my oma’s life. For weeks, she scoured the depths of old boxes and dusty albums, until she’d found records of every pivotal moment of my oma that she could. Sepia, water-stained photos adorned the pages, accompanied by careful captions, dates. ...
the bittersweet taste of nostalgia [feature]
By Samira Lakhiani | April 14As if by reflex, I grab the keys off the kitchen counter and toss them to my sister. A frequent inhabitant of the passenger seat, I am more than happy to relinquish control of the car. We head into the sticky garage, and the familiar humidity of a Rhode Island summer greets us. Our routine begins.
the peripheral view [feature]
By Joyce Gao | April 6I know romanticizing sleep deprivation is a little foolish. I am not speaking of just any sleep deprivation; I am speaking of the kind you knowingly bring upon yourself when you are young and carefree, the kind that puts you in a dream-like state, replaying snippets from the previous night. If you have ...