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I Ran with the Bulls in Pamplona
5:30 a.m.: Oneika’s alarm bellows, dragging me from the darkness. Allowing my foggy mind to waken, I lay inert for a moment to process the reason for such an early wake up call. Today, we run with the...
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Looking Back on Abortion in America
Generation Roe: Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement By Sarah Erdreich Seven Stories Press. 272 pages.Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt of Sarah Erdreich’s book, Generation Roe: Inside the...
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His Eyes
For a little girl, I had many big questions while growing up. My mother usually recommended I write them down, so I wouldn’t forget, and then ask my father. No matter my age, my father always treated...
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All I Know Is Here
She was shy, and that’s what drew aspiring photojournalist Shelby Wolfe to her. Her name was Rahel Nunu. Fourteen years old and hidden beneath a green scarf and brown skirt, she lived in a compound in...
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The Long March: A Review of John Lewis’s Graphic Novel
March: Book One By John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell Top Shelf Productions. 128 pages.Fifty years after the March on Washington, we are well versed in the visual cues of the civil rights era:...
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Power Failure
Photo by Saptarshi Chakraborty Lately, as a result of planning my wedding, there’s been a lot of talk among my buddies about what drives the expensive social conservatism we see during our various...
View ArticleCall for Submissions: Incompetence + Stupidity
In The Fray Magazine | Call for Submissions | October 2013: Incompetence + Stupidity In a glaring example of governmental dysfunction, Congress has shutdown the US government and may default on the...
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Rebel Blues: A Review of Mojo Hand
Mojo Hand: The Life and Music of Lightnin’ Hopkins By Timothy J. O’Brien and David Ensminger University of Texas Press. 294 pages.Blues legend Sam Hopkins — known as Lightnin’ Hopkins to his fans —...
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Maybe in America: A Review of Captain Phillips
Captain Phillips Directed by Paul Greengrass Columbia Pictures. PG-13. 2 hours, 14 minutes.Captain Phillips, the new film based on a real-life encounter between an American commercial-shipping crew and...
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The Slippery Slope of Social Media
Photo by Jason Howie I am a writer who recently noticed I spend more time reading articles about writing, absorbing Top Ten lists of famous authors’ work practices, and laughing at clever memes than...
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Burning Man’s Economy of Loving-Kindness
As I approached the gate to Black Rock City, a young man came up to my car and greeted me with a warm “Welcome Home.” I had arrived at Burning Man: a week-long arts festival in the Nevada desert held...
View ArticleCall for Submissions: Forgiveness
In The Fray Magazine | Call for Submissions | January 2014: Forgiveness Nelson Mandela, who spent twenty-seven years in prison before leading South Africa out of apartheid as its first black president,...
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Tourism in a Time of War
The Bekaa Valley and the shelters of Syrians (not necessarily refugees) who work in the adjoining fields. Please, please, please cancel your ticket. It doesn’t matter how much it costs,” implored the...
View ArticleCall for Submissions: Resistance
In The Fray Magazine | Call for Submissions | April 2014: Resistance Ukraine. Venezuela. Thailand. The Arab Spring. We are living in a time of vibrant protest, captured and magnified by cellphone...
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The White Death, Revived
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen that causes TB. NIAID She looks like a child: a baby face and large, round eyes, long and thin arms that make her seem gawky. When she sees me, her eyes...
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The Poetry of Pussy Riot: A Review of Words Will Break Cement
Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot By Masha Gessen Riverhead. 320 pages.Journalist Masha Gessen wrote a well-received biography of Russian president Vladimir Putin two years ago. In her...
View ArticleCall for Submissions: Frenemies
In The Fray Magazine | Call for Submissions | August-September 2014: Frenemies “Frenemies”: friends with fewer benefits. It’s often an apt term to describe our working lives, where polite interactions...
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Street Fighters
A neighborhood in central Caracas bears the marks of dueling political groups. Armored vehicles roll down the street, ringed by dozens of police in riot gear. Further down on the palm tree-lined...
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Unearthing Another War
Separatist fighters survey the steppe after recapturing Saur-Mogila from Ukrainian forces. In the frigid autumn sunlight I climbed the stone steps of Saur-Mogila. The burial mound, located atop a bluff...
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Photographer without Borders
When the Soviet Union began to crumble a quarter-century ago, more than a dozen of its former republics gained their independence. But in the South Caucasus—that much troubled limb of land that,...
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