Worth Reading

On August 11, 2022, a woman in Phoenix was mauled by a jaguar after crossing a waist-high barrier to take...

It was my third day in Pamplona and I hadn’t slept in thirty-two hours. My hostel bunk had been overtaken...

By Ellis Camden I quit my job at The Strand and moved to a town in South Carolina that no...

Phil Demmel didn’t ask to be a guitar god. He just picked up an axe in the middle of a...

To call Mike Portnoy a drummer is like calling Salvador Dalí a guy who doodled. He’s not just a percussionist—he’s...

Lavie Tidhar writes like a man on a mission to scramble your brain—gently, artfully, and with the knowing wink of...

To read J.M. Blaine is to tumble into a world where rock stars confess their sins in fast-food parking lots,...

Lindsay Hunter doesn’t write stories that sit politely on the page. Her work smokes, swears, bleeds, and begs to be...

Let’s say you’re flipping through a magazine sometime in the early 2000s and stumble upon an essay that asks, “What...

Going viral on Facebook sounds like a dream, right? One moment you're sharing a post with a few friends, and...