Topic: Book excerpts

“Desire Lines: A Memoir” by Kristen Millares Young (Illustration by Salon / Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images / Chona Kasinger / Anna Madruga of Ren Hen Press)

What remains after everything changes

Kristen Millares Young
Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas in "The English Patient" (Miramax)

What "English Patient" left off screen

Kristen Lopez
Courtney Love (Mick Hutson/Redferns/Getty Images)

Lipstick, music's most versatile symbol

Eileen G'Sell
Dianne Wiest and Johnny Depp on the set of "Edward Scissorhands" (Twentieth Century Fox Film Corpo/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

Edward and the burden of exceptionality

Kristen Lopez
Flaco, a Eurasian eagle owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo, continues to roost and hunt in Central Park, February 15, 2023 in New York City, New York. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Flaco the owl’s troubled freedom

David Gessner
A medical student displays a pouch of Narcan, which is used to revive an overdose, at a Remote Area Medical (RAM) mobile dental and medical clinic on October 07, 2023 in Grundy, Virginia. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Harm reduction is about ending stigma

Sheila P. Vakharia
Astronaut James H Newman and Carl E Waltz, mission specialists, practice space walking techniques and evaluate tools to be used on the first Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission scheduled for later in the year, 16th September 1993. (Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

On almost breaking the Hubble telescope

Mike Massimino
Happy mother and son holding hands and talking while taking a walk on the beach (Getty Images/skynesher)

What kids teach us about gender

Schuyler Bailar
This handout photo dated 31 October 2002 shows an aerial view of the new elevated station (bottom-C) being built at the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. (DAVID MCCARTHY/AFP via Getty Images)

Living large at the South Pole

John Messick
Israel Page and Margaret (Warren) Page, Sharon Tubbs's maternal grandparents, and the house in Uniontown, Alabama, where the Tubbs family traveled from Fort Wayne, Indiana, each summer to visit grandparents. (Photo illustration by Salon/Photos courtesy of author/Getty Images)

Threats of racial terror follow us today

Sharon Tubbs
England fans react as they watch England's victory over Norway in the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup quarter-finals on the West Holts stage during day two of Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 27, 2019 in Glastonbury, England. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

The perks of being a sports fan

Ben Valenta, David Sikorjak
Atlantic City Boardwalk (Getty Images/Joecho-16)

A runaway girl's skeleton in the museum

Erin Keane
Illustration of Puritan Lady and Gentleman (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

America's wildly contradictory sex story

Catherine M. Roach
Crime scene barrier tape (Getty Images/Tetra Images)

I had wished my father dead many times

Lisa Nikolidakis
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, 'Long After Dark' tour, 7 December 1982 Wembley Arena. (Solomon N’Jie/Getty Images)

Tom Petty's lessons on darkness

Megan Volpert
Emergency lights on a us police car (Getty Images/Oliver Helbig)

Why we need to talk about whiteness

Baynard Woods
Young boy resting in the park (Getty Images/franckreporter)

My city kid summer camp nightmare

D. Watkins
"Black American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream" by Tiffanie Drayton | Protesters gather outside the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Viking Publishers)

How I knew Jan. 6 violence was coming

Tiffanie Drayton
Woman cleaning big mushroom at home (Getty Images/Guido Mieth)

My day with the Mushroom Queen

Naomi Moriyama, William Doyle
US President Donald Trump (R) meets with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at the White House in Washington, DC, May 31, 2017. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's odd meeting with Vietnam's PM

Ted Osius
Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Roger Taylor, Simon Le Bon and Andy Taylor (back) of Duran Duran in 1983 (Fin Costello/Redferns)

"Hungry Like the Wolf" began a new era

Annie Zaleski
Author Lilly Dancyger with her father, Joe Schactman | Bird sculpture constructed by Joe Schactman (Joe Schactman, Courtesy of Lilly Dancyger)

"I hope you have some positive memories"

Lilly Dancyger
Spiral staircase to St Stephen's Basilica dome, Budapest (Getty Images)

Why focusing on intent won't stop racism

Patricia Roberts-Miller
Philip Roth in Aix en Provence with his companion. (Pascal Parrot/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)

Philip Roth's troubling racial odyssey

Jacques Berlinerblau
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