• Memoir

    Migration

    Expat, Economic Migrant or Refugee? And Why These Labels Shouldn’t Matter

    Alex Poppe Considers Her Family’s History of Immigration In Light of Trump’s Xenophobic Assault

     
    By Alex Poppe  July 25, 2025
    Perspective

    On the Unlikeliness of Life: Why We’re Still Lucky to Be Alive Today

    By Simon Boas  July 23, 2025
    On Grief

    The Stories That Shape Us: On Navigating the Aftermath of Suicide in Memoir

    By Ruthie Ackerman  July 21, 2025
    Fathers and Daughters

    With Love, Dad: On Finally Meeting My Father, the Novelist Austin Clarke

    By Darcy Ballantyne  July 16, 2025
    On The Self

    Haunted Household Objects: What the Material World Can Teach Us About Ourselves

    By Katherine Larson  July 16, 2025
    Identity

    In From the Margins: On Letting the Roma Narrate Their Own Story

    By Madeline Potter  July 15, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Natural World

    Growing Your Wild Garden: On Nature As a Companion, Not a Competitor

    By Richard Mabey  July 15, 2025
    Self-Discovery

    Nature’s Infinite Possibilities: Exploring the World’s Many Ways of Knowing

    By Mari Andrew  July 15, 2025
    Mothers and Daughters

    Following the Poet’s Path: A Daughter’s Journey to Japan In Search of Closure

    By Rebecca Chace  July 14, 2025
    Indigenous Peoples

    How Canadian Laws and Institutions Sought to Erase Indigenous Peoples and Cultures

    Tanya Talaga Explores the Intersections of a Family Mystery and the Ongoing Legacy of Genocide Against Canada’s First Nations

    By Tanya Talaga  July 24, 2025
    The Hub

    The case against Substack. (ICYMI)

    By Brittany Allen  July 10, 2025
    Mothers and Daughters

    The Church of the Screen: A Daughter’s Reflections on an Early Cinematic Education

    By Joanna Howard  July 10, 2025
    The Natural World

    On Killing a Coyote

    By Helen Whybrow  July 7, 2025
    American History

    On America’s First Highway: Preparing For a Trip Along the Great Wagon Road

    James Dodson Explores the History and Legacy of Early Colonial Expansion

    By James Dodson  July 7, 2025
    Language

    How Immigrants and Other ESL Students Make American English Their Own

    By Megan C. Reynolds  July 2, 2025
    Latin American Literature

    Remembering the Great Manuel Puig, Cosmopolitan Chronicler of the Everyday

    By Suzanne Jill Levine  June 30, 2025
    The Natural World

    Last Outposts: Rediscovering Hope for Humanity on Norway’s Remote Northern Coast

    By James Rebanks  June 26, 2025
    Women in Science

    Why Field Research Remains an Essential Part of Scientific Inquiry and Inclusion

    Sarah Boon on the Trailblazing 19th-Century Women Who Fed Her Passion For the Natural World

    By Sarah Boon  June 25, 2025
    Surfing

    Waves and Wipeouts: On Learning How to Surf As an Adult

    By David Litt  June 25, 2025
    Writers in Conversation

    Standing Tall: On the Value and Importance of Women Who Take Up Space

    By Jane Smiley  June 20, 2025
    Wildfires

    Summers on the Forest: What It’s Like Training to Fight Wildfires

    By Kelly Ramsey  June 18, 2025
    Vacations

    A Place of Rugged, Simple Beauty: One Summer in Rural Newfoundland

    Robert Finch Recalls the Challenging Yet Rewarding Days Spent on Canada’s Rugged Atlantic Coast

    By Robert Finch  June 18, 2025
    Father's Day

    Becoming a Parent Changes How You Write… But Must It Change What You Write?

    By Danny Lorberbaum  June 13, 2025
    Humor

    “No One Makes ‘Yo Mama’ Jokes After the Funeral.” Hanif Abdurraqib on the Power of Unexpected Humor

    By Hanif Abdurraqib  June 12, 2025
    Books

    From the Ashes to the Dustbin: The Making and Un-Making of a Personal Library

    By Peter Wortsman  July 14, 2025
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