Nonfiction
Boston's Book People
Maite Suarez-Rivas
It’s early August. Through a front window of a red brick row house you can see the thirty-seven-year old Elizabeth at the long counter installed to display the store’s merchandise. She is the proprietor of this business and she’s announced its opening in Boston’s most popular paper. “NEW FOREIGN BOOK ROOM” reads the piece in The Daily Advertiser. The text beneath the headline isn’t specific about titles…
Eye Contact
Emily Avery-Miller
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin are working on a prototype of a digital contact lens that may not quite make the wearer an all-seeing eyeball, but it will bring the pixelated world right to his or her pupils. With the aid of tiny antennae and LED screens, the lens will project information from the Web right onto the user’s field of vision. This technology transcends not only the boundaries…
In the Interest of Encouraging Engagement with the Natural World
Priscilla Andrade
As a passenger entering the city from my small hometown in New Hampshire, I absorb the view of the urban night. On my rides down I-93, I imagine people of yesteryear riding into Boston on horseback through dense wilderness on ground a-hyperbolic-half-mile below the black top of the highway. We arrive at Exit 26…
A Lack of God
Jensen Toperzer
Listen to your heart beat. Listen to the rhythm and the sound, listen to the thump; maybe it’s irregular and maybe it’s regular but it doesn’t matter, because it’s a beat, a rhythm…
Modern Feminists: Sea Captains and Stay-At-Home Moms
Paige Towers
Here’s my scenario: I’m 25. I’m a single woman, a grad student, living in Boston, Massachusetts. (Ay, not so far from where Ms. Fuller once held her famous conversations about women’s liberation!) I live in an apartment with two roommates and a dog. My dog. He’s the only thing besides me that I have to take care of and he doesn’t require much other than…
Questions and Answers?
Miya Williams
When is the last time you looked at yourself? No, not in the mirror. I mean looked at who you really are—your beliefs, desires, passions, strengths and overall character. It is rare that most people do that regularly, but it is so important. How can you be of any use to the world if you don’t truly understand the core of who you are and what you want? It’s OK, I get it. No one encourages you to be selfish. From early childhood most of us have been taught.…
What I Learned at Church
Lea McLellan
The Unitarian church. Too creepy. My Dad says the pastor was on Valium.…