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How We Get Free: On Genealogical Quests and Unknown Family History

How We Get Free: On Genealogical Quests and Unknown Family History

Michelle D. Commander Unearths the Buried Lives of Her Formerly Enslaved Ancestors

By Michelle D. Commander | February 19, 2021

Homecoming: How To Be a Returnee in Lagos

Homecoming: How To Be a Returnee in Lagos

Yemisi Adegoke on Returnee Privilege and the Africa You Don’t See on TV

By Yemisi Adegoke | February 18, 2021

When Death Comes: An Oncology Nurse Finds Solace in Mary Oliver

When Death Comes: An Oncology Nurse Finds Solace in Mary Oliver

Nina Solis on Making Peace with the Unknown

By Nina Solis | February 18, 2021

The Power of Claiming My Identity as a Disabled Writer

The Power of Claiming My Identity as a Disabled Writer

Sandra Beasley Embraces the “Medicalized Body”

By Sandra Beasley | February 18, 2021

Rebecca Carroll on Learning There Isn't One Way to Be Black

Rebecca Carroll on Learning There Isn't One Way to Be Black

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | February 18, 2021

Bloody Talismans: How an American Journalist Endured an al Qaeda Prison

Bloody Talismans: How an American Journalist Endured an al Qaeda Prison

Theo Padnos on Surviving Captivity, Torture, and Terror in Syria

By Theo Padnos | February 17, 2021

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Books of the Week

Lessons in Self-Invention and Reinvention from
Theodore Roosevelt

By Michael Patrick F. Smith | February 17, 2021

Candace Jane Opper on the Importance of Stories from the Outer Circle of Grief

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | February 17, 2021

Moved to Tears at the Magic Mike Live XXX Revue

By Tracy Clark-Flory | February 16, 2021

Cooking Thịt Kho, and Remembering What it Means to Be Vietnamese

Cooking Thịt Kho, and Remembering What it Means to Be Vietnamese

Abbigail N. Rosewood Shares Memories of a Childhood Favorite
(and the Recipe!)

By Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood | February 16, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>Minor Feelings</em> by Cathy Park Hong

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong

Marion Winik on One of the Finalists for Autobiography

By Marion Winik | February 16, 2021

A few of the things Thomas Bernhard hated most about all the literary prizes he won.

A few of the things Thomas Bernhard hated most about all the literary prizes he won.

By Walker Caplan | February 12, 2021

I Wanted to Understand the Breathtaking Violence of American Policing, <br>So I Became a Cop

I Wanted to Understand the Breathtaking Violence of American Policing,
So I Became a Cop

Rosa Brooks Wrestles with the Puzzle of State-Sanctioned Violence

By Rosa Brooks | February 12, 2021

Gabriel Byrne on Navigating Past and Present, Fact and Imagination

Gabriel Byrne on Navigating Past and Present, Fact and Imagination

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | February 12, 2021

Surviving Your Thirties: AKA the<br> Panic Years

Surviving Your Thirties: AKA the
Panic Years

Nell Frizzell on Motherhood, Aging, and the Demands of the Biological Clock

By Nell Frizzell | February 10, 2021

Gabriel Byrne on Struggling With Authenticity in the Wake of Fatherly Expectation

Gabriel Byrne on Struggling With Authenticity in the Wake of Fatherly Expectation

“To be on the scrap heap was to be shamed. A man worked.”

By Gabriel Byrne | February 10, 2021

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