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Open Letters to People or Entities Who Are Unlikely to Respond

Send your nonfictional open letters to openletters@mcsweeneys.net.
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April 23, 2018

An Open Letter to People Who Don’t Make Every Conceivable Effort to Ensure that the Bathroom Door is Locked

by Andrew Forrester
April 13, 2018

An Open Letter to Those Who Want to Liberate Me From Wearing My Hijab

by Amira B. Kunbargi
April 10, 2018

An Open Letter to Finland’s President Sauli Niinistö

by Alex Baia
March 29, 2018

An Open Letter to Collegiate Basketball Benchwarmers

by Kristin Nalivaika
March 7, 2018

An Open Letter to the Guy Who Didn’t Believe My Ethnicity Even Though It Was None of His Business

by Kasey Furutani
March 2, 2018

An Open Letter to Greta Gerwig About How Her Film, Lady Bird, Passed the Bechdel Test Way Too Many Times

by Astrid Johnson-Krause
February 23, 2018

An Open Letter to the Phrase “Positive Vibes Only”

by Ali O’Reilly
February 19, 2018

An Open Letter to James Madison About His Drafting of the Second Amendment

by Josh Lorenzo
January 22, 2018

An Open Letter of Thanks to the Men Who Tell Me Who Paul Thomas Anderson Is

by Charlotte Barnett
January 17, 2018

An Open Letter to My Thirty-Five-Year-Old Guy Friends Who Date Twenty-Four Year-Olds and Complain to Me About It

by Helen Huntress
January 10, 2018

An Open Letter to the Box of Loose Cables in My Closet

by Adam Chardis
December 7, 2017

An Open Letter to My Husband Regarding Our Family Holiday Cards

by Veronica McCarthy

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April 30, 2020

The Girl From Avril Lavigne’s “Sk8er Boi” Responds 18 Years Later

by Madeleine Trebenski
June 26, 2020

A Message from Your University’s Vice President for Magical Thinking

by Juliana Gray
June 30, 2020

Would-You-Rathers for Parents During Quarantine

by Sally Miller and Julie Vick
June 22, 2020

I’m the Guy Setting Off Fireworks Every Night In Your Neighborhood and I Have You Right Where I Want You

by Ilana Gordon

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Security Questions for Academics Approaching the Fall 2020 Semester

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We at Anthropologie Will Be the Harbingers of Racial Justice

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by Ben Parker, Stephanie Steinbrecher, Kelsey Ronan, John McMurtrie, Sophia DuRose, Rachel Villa, and Amy Sumerton
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The Instinct to Help

by Ken Wu