My cultural awakening: a Rihanna song showed me how to live as a gay man in Iran

My sexuality had to be hidden from my friends, my parents, not to mention the authorities. Then I found freedom at house parties and one song that sums up me finally being able to be myself

My dad made the biggest jewelled egg in the world. The obsession would destroy his marriage, family and fortune

The mad venture – which my mother nicknamed ‘your father’s ego’ – would swallow my childhood. Years later I went on a quest to understand what really happened to his glittering folly

George Santos Was Inevitable

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Judy Blume Never Stops

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Two Kinds

A short story

Why Kids Like 'Parenting' Their Toys

The enduring appeal of toys that need to be fed, changed, and rocked like human babies may be rooted in children’s desire to act like grown-ups.