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When You Learn Your Mother Was a Serious Writer Only After She’s Gone

When You Learn Your Mother Was a Serious Writer Only After She’s Gone

Michael Bourne Remembers His Mother, Nancy Bourne, Author of Spotswood, Virginia

By Michael Bourne | May 6, 2022

Lara Bazelon on the Knife’s Edge That Ambitious Women Must Navigate

Lara Bazelon on the Knife’s Edge That Ambitious Women Must Navigate

“Instinctive self-diminishment isn’t a biologically determined female trait; it is a learned and rewarded behavior.”

By Lara Bazelon | May 6, 2022

The Complex Grief of Losing a Mother You Already Mourned

The Complex Grief of Losing a Mother You Already Mourned

Candice Iloh on Coming to Terms with Their Mother as Ancestor

By Candice Iloh | May 6, 2022

There Is Grace in Patience: On the Writing Lessons of Tarot

There Is Grace in Patience: On the Writing Lessons of Tarot

Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood Considers Trust, Discovery, and Dreaming While Awake

By Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood | May 5, 2022

How Gender-Mixing Laundry Can Be Revolutionary in Myanmar

How Gender-Mixing Laundry Can Be Revolutionary in Myanmar

Pyae Moe Thet War on the Uses and Appropriations of the Concept of “Hpone”

By Pyae Moe Thet War | May 5, 2022

What It Took to Finally Write Honestly About My Mental Illness

What It Took to Finally Write Honestly About My Mental Illness

Joanne Greenberg on Claiming Her Name and Her Story

By Joanne Greenberg | May 5, 2022

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The Girl Who Left, The Woman Who Stayed: Finding Georgia O’Keeffe in a Small Southern Town

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Parenting 101: Does “Because I Said So” Ever Really Work?

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Searching for the Ghosts of My Father’s Life in Hungary

Searching for the Ghosts of My Father’s Life in Hungary

Karen Winn on Traveling Overseas to Find the Parent She Had Lost

By Karen Winn | May 4, 2022

Why Queer Stories Deserve Happy Endings

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Susie Dumond on Positive Role Models

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The Story That Saved Me: On Writing My Way Out of a Life That No Longer Felt Like Mine

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Lauren McBrayer’s Novel Showed up Exactly When She Needed It

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Following the Workings of My Mind: Gerald Murnane Rereads His First Novel

Following the Workings of My Mind: Gerald Murnane Rereads His First Novel

The Writer Revisits Tamarisk Row, Nearly 50 Years Later

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“Auld Lang Syne” in July: Yiyun Li on the Solaces and Limits of Music

“Auld Lang Syne” in July: Yiyun Li on the Solaces and Limits of Music

“Music, in its absolute right to exist, perhaps is not unlike mood, or landscape—external or internal.”

By Yiyun Li | May 3, 2022

Lessons Learned from a Year Listening to the Fictional Octopus in My Head

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Shelby Van Pelt on an Unlikely Friend and Saying What You Mean

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How the Small Moments That Haunt Us Can Form the Seeds of a Novel

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