Akanksha Singh considers plotlessness, and how it's perceived by stories of different cultural provenance.
What If Writing Lost the Plot?
Essays
A Moment of Reckoning for Nonprofit Leaders
Greg Berman inspects worrisome trends in the world of nonprofits, and the dashed hopes of those who join them.
To Everything, Turn, Turn, Turn
The Plaza in downtown Orange used to seem like a page from a conservative storybook. Not anymore.
55 Voices for Democracy: “The Smallest Refusals” by Karen Tongson
Karen Tongson acknowledges that no will come to tell us our democracy is threatened, for the Thomas Mann House series "55 Voices for Democracy."
The Fog of Web
An Xiao Mina links trouble discerning news about wildfires with mixed messaging on COVID-19.
Difficult Women: The Folly of the Reclaim Her Name Project
Brenna M. Casey dissects the difficulties of attempting to credit the real (or imagined) literary figures published under pen names.
We’ve Always Needed the COVID-19 Stories that Aren’t Being Told
Last week the people next door had a gathering. Six months ago, that might have been annoying if you had …
