Sarah Sentilles on Writing about People You Know

Sarah Sentilles on Writing about People You Know

With Prompts for Breaking Through the Hesitation

By Sarah Sentilles | June 3, 2022

The Complicated Grief of Trying to Adopt a Child

The Complicated Grief of Trying to Adopt a Child

Sarah Sentilles: “I was an animal in my grief. Wild. Ready to protect my young, but I didn’t have any.”

By Sarah Sentilles | May 10, 2021

What Does It Mean to Look at Photos of Imagined Violence?

What Does It Mean to Look at Photos of Imagined Violence?

Sarah Sentilles on the Photographs of Debi Cornwall

By Sarah Sentilles | October 19, 2020

Looking at the Other in the Midst of War

Looking at the Other in the Midst of War

Sarah Sentilles on Empathy, Art, and Abu Ghraib

By Sarah Sentilles | July 17, 2017

We're Going to Need More Than Empathy

We're Going to Need More Than Empathy

We Have to Get Radical with the Idea of the Other

By Sarah Sentilles | July 6, 2017

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