by Jenn Sauer | Aug 20, 2014 | Magazine Article
An Ellis Island tableau, Victoria mused, as she slowly snaked her way through the airport security queue. Except rather than remove hats to prove a louse-free head, these huddled masses shed their shoes—no plastic explosives in these Adidas!—each awaiting the official...
by Karen Loeb | May 27, 2014 | Magazine Article
“Always stirfrom left to right,”my mother saidmoving the wooden spoonthrough the chocolate pudding. After allGrandma stirredfrom left to right. Something to dowith gravitational pullmaybe the moonand the tides.Who knowswhat unseen forceshave caused...
by Lois Bielefeld | May 15, 2014 | Magazine Article
I admit it—I’m nosy. I’ve always been fascinated by people’s habits and personal spaces, and what they reveal. There are things we all do: eat and sleep, for example. But the various rituals surrounding these activities and how we define the spaces for partaking in...
by Erika Janik | May 14, 2014 | Magazine Article
Iowa resident Janine Brown’s life changes in an instant when she wins a dream home on the coast of Maine. The only trouble is that there are two Janine Browns living in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and both believe they’ve won the dream home. The two wildly different Janines...
by Brendon Smith | May 14, 2014 | Magazine Article
In Marketplace of the Marvelous: The Strange Origins of Modern Medicine, Erika Janik traces the development of alternative (or “irregular,” as it was known then) medicine in nineteenth century America. Chapters chart the rise, decline—and, in some cases, resurgence—of...
