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In Search of Visibility: Kao Kalia Yang on Sharing the Hmong Refugee Experience

In Search of Visibility: Kao Kalia Yang on Sharing the Hmong Refugee Experience

“Each story that I share opens me up to and for the world in ways that I never knew were possible.”

By Kao Kalia Yang | March 21, 2024

Elspeth Barker on Jealousy, Truest of Human Vices

Elspeth Barker on Jealousy, Truest of Human Vices

“Female jealousy is associated with witchery, bitchery, dementia, and underhand behavior.”

By Elspeth Barker | March 20, 2024

Marie Mutsuki Mockett on Writing in Times of Sickness and Health

Marie Mutsuki Mockett on Writing in Times of Sickness and Health

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Tree Doctor”

By Jane Ciabattari | March 19, 2024

Francophone, Anglophone... Cameroonian? Musih Tedji Xaviere on Telling the Story of Her Country’s Struggles

Francophone, Anglophone... Cameroonian? Musih Tedji Xaviere on Telling the Story of Her Country’s Struggles

"I realized I didn't care anymore about my fears, the object of my limitations."

By Musih Tedji Xaviere | March 18, 2024

Fashionably Old: Lyn Slater on Aging With Attitude

Fashionably Old: Lyn Slater on Aging With Attitude

“It’s time to write a new story, to reuse in imaginative ways garments that already hang in my closet.”

By Lyn Slater | March 15, 2024

<em>The Tale of Genji</em>: A Visual Journey Through the World’s First Novel

The Tale of Genji: A Visual Journey Through the World’s First Novel

Marie Mutsuki Mockett on Japan’s National Literary Treasure

By Marie Mutsuki Mockett | March 12, 2024

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Remembering Russell Banks: Mary Morris on Her Long Friendship With the Author of <em>American Spirits</em>

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Michele Herman on the Challenges of Getting—and Keeping—Her Book on the Shelves

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Uncovering the Incredible Story of a Romance Between Two Prisoners in Auschwitz

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Keren Blankfeld on Researching a Gripping Love Story and the Challenges of Writing About Someone Who Isn't There

By Keren Blankfeld | February 28, 2024

From the Reservation to the River: On the Complexities of Writing About a Native Childhood

From the Reservation to the River: On the Complexities of Writing About a Native Childhood

Deborah Taffa on Acknowledging America’s Genocide of Native People

By Deborah Taffa | February 28, 2024

Sororal Death and Sad, Sexy Icons: Emmeline Clein on Eating Disorder Memoirs and the Contagion of Identification

Sororal Death and Sad, Sexy Icons: Emmeline Clein on Eating Disorder Memoirs and the Contagion of Identification

“For all the girls who weren’t wrong and all the girls who were.”

By Emmeline Clein | February 28, 2024

Amitava Kumar on Finding Solace in the Words of Others

Amitava Kumar on Finding Solace in the Words of Others

“I was still reporting to my father, the things I had read and all that I had remembered.”

By Amitava Kumar | February 27, 2024

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