Cover Photo: illustration of a young woman, out for a run and wearing a T-shirt and shorts, stretching and looking over her shoulder at a red car looming close by.
The Hunter and the Hunted

Suddenly, I wasn’t just prey, I was bait. In order to hunt him down, I had to be both cautious and on display.

Sep 10, 2019
Cover Photo: Photograph by Hannah Gullixson/Unsplash
This Is About Smoking

I’m coming apart like the first cigarette I ever rolled. Loose, slobbering, and burning too fast.

Sep 04, 2019
Cover Photo: Illustration by Shing Yin Khor for Catapult
My Harabeoji Taught Me It’s Always Better to Add More Garlic

Harabeoji’s favorite thing to eat, and the thing to which he attributed his long life, was raw garlic.

Sep 03, 2019
Cover Photo: a vintage illustration of a young woman next to a fawn, a scene from the fairy tale "Brother and Sister"
On Fairy Tales and the Ghostliness of Early Motherhood
What saves these lost mothers is different in every fairy tale; often they’re brought back simply by virtue of being recognized. For me, coming back to life took time.
Sep 03, 2019
Cover Photo: Photograph by Maki/Flickr
Learning to Cook in Japan, I Fed My Family and My Sense of Self
The bento lunches the hoikuen expected mothers to produce were an exercise in artistry. But I didn’t care about making the perfect bento.
Aug 29, 2019
Cover Photo: In Immigrating from Japan, I Lost Language, Home, and Pokémon by Nina Coomes
In Immigrating from Japan, I Lost Language, Home, and Pokémon
Maybe, I thought, I could play Pokémon with my peers and bridge the gap between me and my an all-white classroom. But we lose things in translation.
Aug 28, 2019
Cover Photo: Photograph by Joshua Smelser/Flickr
In Defense of the Low Bar: An Ode to Everclear
Kurt Cobain would not approve, but privately I wondered if there wasn’t space for a beloved burnished thing in my new and improved pop pantheon.
Aug 29, 2019
Cover Photo: Still from "Camelot"/Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
‘Camelot,’ the Hollywood Failure That Taught Me to Live Again
I think now, what is life if not a rather ridiculous, fumbling, histrionic, financially ruinous, unwieldy thing?
Aug 21, 2019
Cover Photo: What Vin Diesel Taught Me About Singing and Sincerity by Joshua Bohnsack
What Vin Diesel Taught Me About Singing and Sincerity
Vin closes his eyes and bares his soul, meaning each word of the song, and isn’t that the point? Vin never claimed to be a good singer.
Aug 20, 2019
Cover Photo: Illustration by Alexandra Bowman for Catapult
The Projection of Jupiter in Zoo City
Humans should never have come to Florida, but their biggest mistake of all was Zoo City.
Aug 30, 2019
Cover Photo: Illustration by Alexandra Bowman for Catapult
Mementorol Makes Lost Love Feel Found
“Like my heart was a tiny explosion,” is how one woman on r/mementorol describes her experience. I want to feel that way again.
Aug 23, 2019
Cover Photo: Illustration by Alexandra Bowman for Catapult
We Can’t Be Good at Everything
He is forced into farcical attempts to catch her attention. Every other moment of his life has been arranged to this purpose, so why should his son’s birthday be any different?
Aug 16, 2019