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Imagining Home: On Family, Place and Inheritance in South Asia and North America

Imagining Home: On Family, Place and Inheritance in South Asia and North America

Sadiya Ansari Considers the Impact and Legacy of Displacement After Partition

By Sadiya Ansari | August 14, 2024

Scheherazade Was a Liar, Too: How Secrets Can Fuel Creative and Personal Exploration

Scheherazade Was a Liar, Too: How Secrets Can Fuel Creative and Personal Exploration

Navid Sinaki on Finding His Voice as a Young, Queer Iranian Immigrant

By Navid Sinaki | August 13, 2024

Remembering the Jasmine of Ramallah; Or, How to Write to the Heart of the Matter in a Broken World

Remembering the Jasmine of Ramallah; Or, How to Write to the Heart of the Matter in a Broken World

Ben Ehrenreich on the Impossibility of Narrative Containment

By Ben Ehrenreich | August 8, 2024

On My Attempt to Become a Better Tennis Player By Reading Self-Help Books

On My Attempt to Become a Better Tennis Player By Reading Self-Help Books

Keith Gandal Zen on the Art of Losing Badly

By Keith Gandal | July 31, 2024

Returning to the Scene: What’s Left of Café Loup, Legendary NYC Literary Haunt?

Returning to the Scene: What’s Left of Café Loup, Legendary NYC Literary Haunt?

Erin Edmison Looks Back From Her Customary Spot at the Bar

By Erin Edmison | July 31, 2024

On Lying About Reading, or: How I Learned That Stieg Larsson Is Good, Actually

On Lying About Reading, or: How I Learned That Stieg Larsson Is Good, Actually

Sara Martin Considers the Motivations Behind Our Literary Untruths

By Sara Martin | July 29, 2024

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Mira Ptacin on Transforming One’s Inner Critic

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From Dream to Nightmare: On the Deadly Manifestations of Religious Hatred in India

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Zara Chowdhary Remembers a Idyllic Childhood Torn Apart by Violent Sectarianism

By Zara Chowdhary | July 22, 2024

On the Aftermath of a Brutal Murder-Suicide in an Idyllic Small Town

On the Aftermath of a Brutal Murder-Suicide in an Idyllic Small Town

George Choundas Ponders How Life Continues In the Face of Senseless Tragedy

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Meet the writers who garden against time.

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By Brittany Allen | July 18, 2024

What Does It Mean to Write Escapist Literature?

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Caroline Carlson on Children’s Books and Escape Artistry

By Caroline Carlson | July 16, 2024

What the All-American Delusion of the Polygraph Says About Our Relationship to Fact and Fiction

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Justin St. Germain Considers the Blurry Borders Between Memory, Memoir and Myth

By Justin St. Germain | July 15, 2024

Crooked Parallels: On Alice Munro, Andrea Skinner, and My Mother’s Failure to Protect Me

Crooked Parallels: On Alice Munro, Andrea Skinner, and My Mother’s Failure to Protect Me

For Jonny Diamond the Separation of the Art From the Artist Isn’t the Question

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