Sarah McColl

Sarah McColl’s essays have appeared in South Dakota Review, In Context Journal, and StoryQuarterly, where she was named one of the winners of the 2016 Nonfiction Prize judged by Meghan Daum. She has written about food for Bon Appetit, House Beautiful, and Edible Brooklyn, and was the founding editor in chief of Yahoo Food. She lives in Brooklyn.

Education & Society

Thanksgiving Is a Feast of Things Forgotten

Thanksgiving is a feast so complex and semiotically dense that things are very often forgotten and rarely go according to plan.

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Arts & Culture

James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni in Conversation

In 1971, two legends of Black letters discussed Black manhood, white racism, the role of the writer, and the responsibility to teach.

Science & Technology

Can We Build a Better Facebook?

Is it time to turn our back on Facebook? And if so, what social network could possibly replace it?

Science & Technology

The Anatomists of Ancient Alexandria

Cultural forces under the Ptolemaic dynasty briefly allowed scholars like Herophilus to practice dissection—and possibly vivisection—on human subjects.

Politics & History

The Genocide Before the Shoah

For a century, Jews in Turkey have maintained a strategic silence when it comes to recognizing the Armenian genocide. Could that be changing?

Politics & History

Wilhelm Reich: Twice Burned

A psychoanalyst and physician, Reich fled the Nazis only to be detained by the US as an “enemy alien” during World War II. And then came the sexual revolution.

Sarah McColl

Thanksgiving Is a Feast of Things Forgotten

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