The Blessing of a Hybrid Brain: On the Joy of Writing in Two Languages

The Blessing of a Hybrid Brain: On the Joy of Writing in Two Languages

Tatiana de Rosnay Unpacks the Lines Between Translating and Crafting Bilingually

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Fever Dreams: Hala Alyan on Displacement, Trauma, and Memory

Fever Dreams: Hala Alyan on Displacement, Trauma, and Memory

"I spend the hours-long dream chanting the line, determined to remember it, because the part of me that is awake, that is aware, knows I will want it later."

By Hala Alyan | June 9, 2025

“Here is What I Know: A Baby is Born.” On the Wild West of Childbirth.

“Here is What I Know: A Baby is Born.” On the Wild West of Childbirth.

Erica Stern Considers a Traumatic Birth and the Many That Came Before

By Erica Stern | June 9, 2025

Beyond Teen Fiction: Six High School Novels for Adult Readers

Beyond Teen Fiction: Six High School Novels for Adult Readers

Miriam Gershow Recommends Zoe Heller, Emily St. James, Jim Shepherd and More

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Shelley Read on Quieting the Mind

Shelley Read on Quieting the Mind

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | June 9, 2025

Victoria Chang on Exploring Silence

Victoria Chang on Exploring Silence

From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | June 9, 2025

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Beyond the Historical Trauma Plot: On Fictionalizing the Armenian Genocide

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Skeletons in the Literary Closet: Five Novels That Dangle Family Secrets Before the Reader

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Compulsory Silence: On the State-Led Suppression of Language in American Prisons

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“Poetics,” a Poem by Aaron Shurin

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Megan Abbott on Criminal Conspiracies in the Fallen Suburbs

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In Abbott's new thriller, three sisters in Grosse Pointe get drawn into an 'investment club.'

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Writing Nature: The Healing Connection of Space and Spirit

Writing Nature: The Healing Connection of Space and Spirit

Bridget Crocker on the Importance of Listening to the Voice of the Natural World

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The World is Alive; or, How Robert Macfarlane Came to Trust His Senses

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