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Life in North Memphis, and the Women Who Taught Me to Read

Life in North Memphis, and the Women Who Taught Me to Read

On the Literary Labor of Ida B. Wells, Toni Morrison and Many More

By Danielle Jackson | April 20, 2017

On <em>Girls</em>, Trump, and Everyone I Ever Dated Before My Husband

On Girls, Trump, and Everyone I Ever Dated Before My Husband

Elizabeth Crane's Brief History of Men Explaining Things to Her

By Elizabeth Crane | April 19, 2017

Blowing Up Bungalows to Make Way For Airports

Blowing Up Bungalows to Make Way For Airports

On Another Kind of Urban Displacement in Atlanta

By Hannah Palmer | April 19, 2017

How an Exile's Return to Iran Inspired a Novel

How an Exile's Return to Iran Inspired a Novel

Donia Bijan Visits Her Childhood Home

By Donia Bijan | April 14, 2017

Hourglass

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Dani Shapiro

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Mourning My Grandfather through <em>The Velveteen Rabbit</em>

Mourning My Grandfather through The Velveteen Rabbit

"Oftentimes it hurts. But once you’re Real, you’re Real forever."

By Sarah Gerard | April 11, 2017

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Surviving the Death of My Son, One Page at a Time

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"That place made me a hard person, a stoic and even merciless person"

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The Return by Hisham Matar

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Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole

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How to Eat a Really Big Lunch with Jim Harrison

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Unlearnable Lessons on My Father's Deathbed

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Marina Benjamin Considers the Reality of 'Second Childhood'

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The Wild, Weird Criminal Side of Florida

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Writing on an Island at the End of the World

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