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Finding Hope, Meaning, and Purpose in a Jenny Zhang Story

Finding Hope, Meaning, and Purpose in a Jenny Zhang Story

Channler Twyman on the Fragility of Belonging to Someone Else

By Channler Twyman | December 8, 2023

After Australia: Robyn Davidson on Discovering Her Next Adventure

After Australia: Robyn Davidson on Discovering Her Next Adventure

“Perhaps a strong fate is nothing more than a reckless disregard for consequences.”

By Robyn Davidson | December 7, 2023

Shadow Face: Jessica Moore on the Dissolving Margins of Motherhood

Shadow Face: Jessica Moore on the Dissolving Margins of Motherhood

“I was made dangerously permeable so my babies could be born.”

By Jessica Moore | December 7, 2023

Between Conversion and Repentance: Christian Wiman on the Uses of Fiction

Between Conversion and Repentance: Christian Wiman on the Uses of Fiction

“Once I wanted poetry to save me. From what? For what is the better question.”

By Christian Wiman | December 5, 2023

Rereading My Words in the Midst of Profound Grief

Rereading My Words in the Midst of Profound Grief

Gabriel Bump on His Characters' Personal Tragedy, and His Own

By Gabriel Bump | December 4, 2023

Muse as Medium: On the Women Pablo Picasso Remade in His Image

Muse as Medium: On the Women Pablo Picasso Remade in His Image

Mara Naselli Considers the Visceral Visual Violence of the Artist’s Oeuvre

By Mara Naselli | November 29, 2023

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Meals and Memories: Sheila Squillante on Writing to Remember Her Father

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A Vicious Cycle: Jessica Strawser on Telling and Re-Telling Traumatic Stories

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One Night at Mable Peabody’s, The Last Gay Bar in Denton, Texas

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Benjamin Moser on What We Can Learn from Failed Dutch Painters

Benjamin Moser on What We Can Learn from Failed Dutch Painters

"Why do we make art, why do we need it, and how can you avoid becoming a failure?"

By Benjamin Moser | November 20, 2023

How a Musical Adaptation of Tolstoy Helped Us Get Through the Pandemic

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On Learning to Ride a Motorcycle After Fifty

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Kim McLarin on Why It's Never Too Late to Feel Dangerous and Accomplished

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Beth Kephart on the Eternal Hope of Rare Books

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"We go to books for solace, and for proof, to begin again at the beginning."

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Archival Romance: On Finding Love in the Papers of an Obscure Medieval Poet

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"This spring, I fell in love with John Gower, who died in 1408."

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Extreme Ithacans: James Elkins on the Joy of Immersion in a Place

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Remembrances of a Childhood Spent in Exploration

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Sacred Space: Why Libraries Are Essential to Incarcerated Writers

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