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Happy Birthday, Gordon and Poland!
It’s Gordon Haber’s birthday, and he’s giving you a gift. Several years back, we published his brief dispatch from Poland called “The Only Jew For Miles.” I noticed very quickly…

An Oral History of Shame
An Excerpt From Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

Losing Our Selves, But Never Getting Lost
An excerpt from KtB e-book Grace Period: A Memoir In Pieces.

Uggs for Gaza
“After a few drinks, Mitch gleaned that Rafe and Joey were “just friends,” which he found encouraging. Less encouraging—downright puzzling, really—was when the conversation turned to environmental concerns, or their…

Celebrate with KtB, Thurs. 3/10 in Brooklyn!
Dear Readers, You are warmly invited to join Killing the Buddha this Thursday evening for: Love You to Death! a raucous celebration of the publication of Ann Neumann‘s The Good Death: An…

Zombies and Guns
When did a movie monster become a reason for purchasing weapons? An excerpt from The Zombies Are Coming.

On Black Anti-Semitism
From the new memoir Letter To Jimmy (Soft Skull Press), translated from the French by Sara Meli Ansari.

Strangers and Friends
A conversation with Ashley Makar and John Green, on the occasion of her new book, You Were Strangers.

This Mutant Genre
The introduction to a new anthology Radiant Truths: Essential …. Essays on American Belief