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What is it Really Like Inside a Sensory Deprivation Tank?

What is it Really Like Inside a Sensory Deprivation Tank?

"I am withholding the weight of my body. I am trying to forget the pressure of being."

By Athena Dixon | October 19, 2023

Where There Is No Doctor: On Navigating Motherhood and Illness

Where There Is No Doctor: On Navigating Motherhood and Illness

Diksha Basu Considers Vulnerability and Self-Diagnosis in the Age of WebMD

By Diksha Basu | October 18, 2023

Stories Too Awful to Believe: Adania Shibli on Bombings in Ramallah

Stories Too Awful to Believe: Adania Shibli on Bombings in Ramallah

“When I try to think of what I could say or write, I feel numb, knowing that the words that will pour out of me will be useless.”

By Adania Shibli | October 18, 2023

Write Who You Love: J. Ryan Stradal on Memorializing His Mother Through Fiction

Write Who You Love: J. Ryan Stradal on Memorializing His Mother Through Fiction

"Over time I learned how to stare into that loss, a loss that brought more pain and longing than I’d ever felt, and pull her back through it."

By J. Ryan Stradal | October 16, 2023

Stories About Myself: The Narratives and Realities of my Childhood in an Urban Commune

Stories About Myself: The Narratives and Realities of my Childhood in an Urban Commune

Pamela Newton Reflects on Alexander Stille's The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

By Pamela Newton | October 16, 2023

Road to Avonlea: Amanda Parrish Morgan on The Transportive Intimacy of Reading and Long Drives

Road to Avonlea: Amanda Parrish Morgan on The Transportive Intimacy of Reading and Long Drives

"The car, the book, the trip—all means of getting somewhere unknown together."

By Amanda Parrish Morgan | October 13, 2023

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Nobel Prize Laureate Katalin Karikó on Her Hungarian Childhood

By Katalin Karikó | October 12, 2023

We All Touch Ourselves: Fancy Feast on Beauty, Pleasure and Sexual Self-Actualization

By Fancy Feast | October 12, 2023

How to Write a Memoir When You're Sick With Cancer

By Dan O'Brien | October 11, 2023

Insomnia, Imposter Syndrome, and All the Ways I Learned to Write My Book

Insomnia, Imposter Syndrome, and All the Ways I Learned to Write My Book

"In order to tell the truth out loud, on the page, I needed to learn to be compassionate with myself"

By Rebecca Clarren | October 11, 2023

How Horror Helps Us Confront and Understand Grief and Loss

How Horror Helps Us Confront and Understand Grief and Loss

Alexandra Dos Santos on Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House

By Alexandra Dos Santos | October 11, 2023

McKenzie Wark Writes a Letter to Her Younger Self

McKenzie Wark Writes a Letter to Her Younger Self

On Love and Money, Sex and Death in Australia

By McKenzie Wark | October 9, 2023

A Crisis of Faith: Pauls Toutonghi on Finding Purpose in Creativity

A Crisis of Faith: Pauls Toutonghi on Finding Purpose in Creativity

"I had created something—something that I’d honestly thought of as maybe a little brilliant but also maybe a little crazy."

By Pauls Toutonghi | October 5, 2023

On the Difficulty of Narrating the Audiobook for Your Own Memoir

On the Difficulty of Narrating the Audiobook for Your Own Memoir

Freda Love Smith Admits, "It's Kind of Hard to Read"

By Freda Love Smith | October 4, 2023

Nathan Hill on the Biggest Surprise of His Literary Career

Nathan Hill on the Biggest Surprise of His Literary Career

This Week on The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

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Confessions of a Chronically Online Janeite

Confessions of a Chronically Online Janeite

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