Issue 522 | The Sun Magazine

June 2019

Readers Write

Making Love

Under the Milky Way, after the fireworks, out of the closet​

By Our Readers
One Nation, Indivisible

June 2019

Featuring Stephen R. Schwartz, Parker J. Palmer, Gloria Baker Feinstein, and more.

The Dog-Eared Page

excerpted from The Diary Of A Young Girl

One good thing has come out of this: as the food gets worse and the decrees more severe, the acts of sabotage against the authorities are increasing.

By Anne Frank
Quotations

Sunbeams

It is an illusion to suppose that a dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and, above all, unsatisfied and fearful men.

L. Susan Stebbing

The Sun Interview

Big Lies

Benjamin Carter Hett On What We Can Learn From Hitler’s Rise To Power

Hitler could only make angry arguments. Trump, too, can’t make an appeal to reason. All he can do is push the anger button and throw abuse at people. In a sense, he is just lucky that the one thing he can do is something that resonates with a certain segment of the population.

By David Barsamian
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Show Day

The Crandells participated in 4-H the way we did everything: bargain hunting, doing odd jobs, and keeping costs and desires to a minimum.

By Doug Crandell
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

The Explorer

But he’s not getting caught on this trip, he says. He’s packing his stash wrapped in tinfoil, sprayed with deer urine, and taped to the inside of his engine, as per a YouTube tutorial.

By Corvin Thomas
Fiction

The Samples

Helplessness makes monsters of people. He’s seen chairs thrown, exam tables kicked. The rooms pathologists speak to patients in now have everything bolted down.

By Kristopher Jansma
Poetry

Fear And Love

I wish I could make the argument that a river / and a sunset plus a calm disregard of the ego / are enough.

By Jim Moore
Poetry

Kiss

When Lynne saw the lizard floating / in her mother-in-law’s swimming pool, / she jumped in.

By Ellen Bass
Poetry

Our Dad Got Old

Our dad got old. He moved in with his brother. We had all left home because we were supposed to figure out what we were good at and do it. He’d taught us that.

By Cary Tennis