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Skene Top 9: The Best Stories of July 2026

TOP NINE: JULY

July belonged to the artists who tell the truth. Ruth Robles, Nicole Stewart Reyes, and Emilio Bastré rose to the top, three performers who treat the stage as a place for honesty, vulnerability, and the raw work of connection, whatever it costs them. Their features struck a chord with readers drawn to art that refuses to perform its way around real feeling. Alongside them, readers reached for the practical and the visionary, from Professor Duckworth’s props guide to Christopher Scott Murillo’s spaces worth believing in. A month about truth on stage, the craft that holds it up, and the courage it takes to be seen.

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