Ben Falik

Photos courtesy of Michael Barg You are Michael Barg. You are knocking on an unmarked door on West Grand Boulevard. It is late and dark,...

Visit Selma Goode in her one-story Redford home and it becomes clear quickly that at 96 years old, she is purpose-driven, patient and proud...

Featured photo by Ben Falik I will always free associate Sam Marvin with wood pallets and wood pallets with Sam Marvin. In the days leading...

Maxine Berman was an open book. And she wrote more than one, apparently. Twenty-five years ago this month, Momentum Books published The Only Boobs in...

Ramy is, with one exception, a Jewish story about how faith and heritage can make navigating contemporary American life both humorous and hard. The...

Randolph Bowersox — an ’80s-movie name if ever there was one. The alpha teen who thinks he owns the slopes, never suspecting John Cusack...

This is a story about Matt Prentice and the people he feeds. I’m one of those people, as far as back as my non-unique...

Dear Lena, By Ben Falik I hope — and I hope that you’ll take me as sincere throughout — that this message finds you and...

I like to name things. Especially things I like that I think might like me back. But it’s not about me. To the contrary....

Sometimes you get a job. And sometimes — if you’re lucky and outgoing and patient, but mostly lucky — a job gets you. That’s...