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When an (Extremely Prolific) Author Shares Your Name

When an (Extremely Prolific) Author Shares Your Name

Bryan Alistair Charles on the Unexpected Gifts of Discovering Brian Charles

By Bryan Alistair Charles | March 11, 2025

You Cannot Go to Your Country: Victoria Amelina on the Start of War in Ukraine

You Cannot Go to Your Country: Victoria Amelina on the Start of War in Ukraine

From Her Unfinished Book, “Looking at Women Looking at War”

By Victoria Amelina | March 6, 2025

Unweaving the Web: On Creating Your Own Narrative of Illness and Health

Unweaving the Web: On Creating Your Own Narrative of Illness and Health

Sophie Strand Explores the Limitations of Traditional Ideas About Disease, Trauma and Healing

By Sophie Strand | March 6, 2025

A War Zone Pediatrician on What Comes After the Horrors of a Gaza Emergency Room

A War Zone Pediatrician on What Comes After the Horrors of a Gaza Emergency Room

Dr. Seema Jilani Reckons with the Hypocrisy of Western Liberal Institutions

By Seema Jilani | March 5, 2025

How Loneliness and Companionship Can Impact a Writer’s Creative Life

How Loneliness and Companionship Can Impact a Writer’s Creative Life

Emily Hodgson Anderson: “What I realized in retrospect was how this personal trajectory... is one I live through, in microcosm, every time I write.”

By Emily Hodgson Anderson | March 5, 2025

The Cords That Bind: On the Elusiveness of Solitude in Motherhood

The Cords That Bind: On the Elusiveness of Solitude in Motherhood

Nicole Graev Lipson Reflects on Thoreau, the Self, and the Frenzy of Parenting

By Nicole Graev Lipson | March 5, 2025

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“We Owe Them Recognition.” On Recovering and Preserving Mexico’s Trans History

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Roots of Stone: Diana McCaulay on Finding Your Story In That of Your Ancestors

Roots of Stone: Diana McCaulay on Finding Your Story In That of Your Ancestors

“The woman in my mind had a certainty about rootedness I had never achieved.”

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The Things We Learned in the Fire: <br>On the Destruction (and Rebirth) of a Bookstore

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Brad Johnson on the Life and Death and Life of East Bay Booksellers

By Brad Johnson | February 26, 2025

Matters of the Heart: On Daily Life With a Defective Yet Vital Organ

Matters of the Heart: On Daily Life With a Defective Yet Vital Organ

Jeffrey L. Kosky: "My heart was defecting—as if it were not really mine—and the defector threatened to tear me apart."

By Jeffrey L. Kosky | February 26, 2025

George Orwell’s Doublethink: How Much Can—Or Should—We Know About Our Literary Idols?

George Orwell’s Doublethink: How Much Can—Or Should—We Know About Our Literary Idols?

Anna Funder on Authorial Privacy, Moral Decency and the Persistent, Omnipresent Menace of Patriarchy

By Anna Funder | February 24, 2025

How Systemic Racism Leads to a Lifetime of Self-Imposed Isolation For Black Americans

How Systemic Racism Leads to a Lifetime of Self-Imposed Isolation For Black Americans

Chad Sanders on Learning to Process the Societal and Psychological Effects of Anti-Blackness

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Memories of a Military Coup: Making Sense of a Vanishing Haitian Heritage

Memories of a Military Coup: Making Sense of a Vanishing Haitian Heritage

Rich Benjamin on Daniel Fignolé, Papa Doc Duvalier, and the Kidnapping That Changed His Family

By Rich Benjamin | February 13, 2025

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