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“At the Coal Seam of Motherhood.” On Writing About My Kids

“At the Coal Seam of Motherhood.” On Writing About My Kids

Janet Manley Considers Mommy Bloggers, Domestic Novels, and Children as Muses

By Janet Manley | June 5, 2024

Mourning in a Time of Global Grief

Mourning in a Time of Global Grief

Amy Kurzweil on the Bridge from Caring About to Caring For

By Amy Kurzweil | June 4, 2024

The (un)Lonely Reader: On the Pleasure of Finding Community in a Book

The (un)Lonely Reader: On the Pleasure of Finding Community in a Book

Emily Hodgson Anderson Considers the Connective Power of Reading

By Emily Hodgson Anderson | June 3, 2024

Growing Up Racist: How Young White Supremacists Are Taught to Hate

Growing Up Racist: How Young White Supremacists Are Taught to Hate

R. Derek Black on Unlearning the Warped Ideology of Their White Nationalist Childhood

By R. Derek Black | May 30, 2024

What Illness Can—and Cannot—Tell Us About Ourselves

What Illness Can—and Cannot—Tell Us About Ourselves

Graham Caveney on Cancer, the Body and the Philosophy of Mortality

By Graham Caveney | May 30, 2024

Eternal Solace: Eve J. Chung on Tradition, Family and Mourning in Taiwan

Eternal Solace: Eve J. Chung on Tradition, Family and Mourning in Taiwan

“I do not idealize the afterlife, but that is largely because of the privilege I have in my present.”

By Eve J. Chung | May 29, 2024

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Lost and Found: KB Brookins on Masculinity, Gender and Trauma

By KB Brookins | May 29, 2024

Remembering Paul Auster

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Beauty and Terror: On Understanding and Accepting a Schizophrenic Mother

By Nina St. Pierre | May 28, 2024

The View From Kyiv: How Ukraine Confronted the Looming Threat of War

The View From Kyiv: How Ukraine Confronted the Looming Threat of War

Illia Ponomarenko on the Days Leading Up to Russia’s Invasion

By Illia Ponomarenko | May 24, 2024

Why You Should Let Your Family Read Your Memoir in Advance

Why You Should Let Your Family Read Your Memoir in Advance

Lilly Dancyger on Navigating Hard (Subjective) Truths

By Lilly Dancyger | May 24, 2024

Unapologetically Free: A Personal Declaration of Independence From the Formerly Enslaved

Unapologetically Free: A Personal Declaration of Independence From the Formerly Enslaved

Abolitionist and Writer John Swanson Jacobs on Reclaiming Liberty In a Land of Unfreedom

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Snapshots of Life: Storytelling and Outlaw Culture in Eastern Kentucky

Snapshots of Life: Storytelling and Outlaw Culture in Eastern Kentucky

Bobi Conn Explores Her Appalachian Family’s Long Tradition of Unreliable Narrators and Morally Gray Characters

By Bobi Conn | May 22, 2024

Drifters, Searchers and Observers: In Praise of Quietly Unlikable Women

Drifters, Searchers and Observers: In Praise of Quietly Unlikable Women

Mesha Maren on the Sisters of Longing Who Inspire Her Work

By Mesha Maren | May 21, 2024

Jessie Gaynor on Rereading <em>The Corrections</em> While Navigating Her Mother’s Parkinson’s

Jessie Gaynor on Rereading The Corrections While Navigating Her Mother’s Parkinson’s

“The book is the same every time, but I am different, so what it offers me is different.”

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What Pearl S. Buck’s Memoir Can Teach Parents of Disabled Children

What Pearl S. Buck’s Memoir Can Teach Parents of Disabled Children

Emily C. Bloom on the Impact and Legacy of “The Child Who Never Grew”

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