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The Dirty Secret of War: It Can Be As Compelling As It Is Ugly

The Dirty Secret of War: It Can Be As Compelling As It Is Ugly

Philip Caputo on the Literature of War

By Philip Caputo | October 20, 2017

When the French Invaded Hanoi, My Brothers Stayed Behind

When the French Invaded Hanoi, My Brothers Stayed Behind

They Knew War was Coming and Were Eager to Fight

By Mai Elliott | October 20, 2017

A Stroke Made My Mother a Poet, I Merely Transcribed

A Stroke Made My Mother a Poet, I Merely Transcribed

For Freeman's Marius Chivu on the Origins of His First Poem

By Marius Chivu | October 19, 2017

Falling in Love Over Email: Anatomy of a Digital Courtship

Falling in Love Over Email: Anatomy of a Digital Courtship

Peter Bognanni on Migrating from the Laptop to Real Life

By Peter Bognanni | October 18, 2017

The Painting That Changed My Life

The Painting That Changed My Life

On Art, Grief, and Amy Pleasant's After the Death

By Kerry Folan | October 18, 2017

Lidia Yuknavitch: The Time I Snuck Into Ken Kesey's Fiction Class

Lidia Yuknavitch: The Time I Snuck Into Ken Kesey's Fiction Class

On Fitting in with Misfits, from Ken Kesey to Melissa Febos

By Lidia Yuknavitch | October 17, 2017

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The Story I Tell Myself About My Father's Death

The Story I Tell Myself About My Father's Death

"I Was So Convinced My Whole Life That Asking About My Father Might Kill Me"

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Jonas Mekas on Stealing Anaïs Nin's Cookies and Receiving Poems from Allen Ginsberg

By Jonas Mekas | October 6, 2017

To Avoid Abuse, I Became Anansi the Trickster

To Avoid Abuse, I Became Anansi the Trickster

For Freeman's, Garnette Cadogan on a Childhood Hiding Behind Fictions

By Garnette Cadogan | October 5, 2017

Remembering My Father, His Gifts, and His Glass Eye

Remembering My Father, His Gifts, and His Glass Eye

"Encapsulating Him in Plain Language Feels Impossible"

By Jeannie Vanasco | October 3, 2017

Growing Up Gay in a Proud Southern Family

Growing Up Gay in a Proud Southern Family

"The Thing I Feared Most in Myself Would One Day Be My Greatest Joy"

By Armistead Maupin | October 2, 2017

Etty Hillesum: God, Sex, and Defiance in a Time of War

Etty Hillesum: God, Sex, and Defiance in a Time of War

A Deserving Voice for the Canon of Holocaust Literature

By Fiona Alison Duncan | September 27, 2017

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