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Why is Maintaining Adult Friendships So Difficult?

Why is Maintaining Adult Friendships So Difficult?

Kristin van Ogtrop on the Ones That Get Away

By Kristin van Ogtrop | April 14, 2021

What the Pandemic Showed Us About a Certain Kind of New Yorker

What the Pandemic Showed Us About a Certain Kind of New Yorker

Emily Raboteau on What It Means to Share Urban Space

By Emily Raboteau | April 13, 2021

Leaning into Mystery: On the Inner Life of an Aging<br> Shelter Dog

Leaning into Mystery: On the Inner Life of an Aging
Shelter Dog

JoAnne Tompkins Considers the Resilience, Strength, and Companionship of a Beloved Pet

By JoAnne Tompkins | April 13, 2021

How Depression and Trauma Cast Multigenerational Shadows

How Depression and Trauma Cast Multigenerational Shadows

Alex Riley on Family History and the Evolution of Modern Psychiatry

By Alex Riley | April 13, 2021

On the Familiar Ghosts and Family Legacies of South Carolina’s Low Country

On the Familiar Ghosts and Family Legacies of South Carolina’s Low Country

J. Nicole Jones Considers a Lifetime of the Unexplained
and the Supernatural

By J. Nicole Jones | April 13, 2021

Watch Kathy Acker read from <em>The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec</em>.

Watch Kathy Acker read from The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec.

By Walker Caplan | April 12, 2021

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Cuomo staffers were (illegally) asked to work on Cuomo's memoir as part of their government jobs.

By Walker Caplan | April 12, 2021

Taking a Much-Needed Road Trip to Italy, Texas

By Andrea Bajani | April 12, 2021

What Needs Done: The Love and Burden of a Family Business

By Melissa Scholes Young | April 12, 2021

On Great Literary Loves and the Joyous, Complicated Brilliance of Walt Whitman

On Great Literary Loves and the Joyous, Complicated Brilliance of Walt Whitman

“The first experience of literary love tends, like the first experience of erotic love, to come in youth.”

By Mark Edmundson | April 9, 2021

Searching for Three Generations of Secrets at a French Chateau

Searching for Three Generations of Secrets at a French Chateau

Stephanie Dray on the Historical Mysteries of the
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By Stephanie Dray | April 9, 2021

Subverting the Script of the Adoption Industrial Complex

Subverting the Script of the Adoption Industrial Complex

Tiana Nobile on Resisting the Erasure of Adoptees’ Stories

By Tiana Nobile | April 9, 2021

On Finding the Balance Between Solitude and Community at an MFA Program

On Finding the Balance Between Solitude and Community at an MFA Program

For Sanjena Sathian, a Room of One’s Own Came with Roommates

By Sanjena Sathian | April 7, 2021

Gina Frangello: The Case Against Self-Flagellation in Memoir

Gina Frangello: The Case Against Self-Flagellation in Memoir

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | April 7, 2021

The Joy and Privilege of Growing Up in an Indie Bookstore

The Joy and Privilege of Growing Up in an Indie Bookstore

Erik Hoel on His Formative Years in the Shelves of His Mother’s Bookstore, The Jabberwocky

By Erik Hoel | April 6, 2021

Saving and Preserving Black Community Spaces on the South Side of Chicago

Saving and Preserving Black Community Spaces on the South Side of Chicago

Tara Betts on the Need to Imagine New Opportunities
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