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Uncovering the Incredible Story of a Romance Between Two Prisoners in Auschwitz

Uncovering the Incredible Story of a Romance Between Two Prisoners in Auschwitz

Keren Blankfeld on Researching a Gripping Love Story and the Challenges of Writing About Someone Who Isn't There

By Keren Blankfeld | February 28, 2024

From the Reservation to the River: On the Complexities of Writing About a Native Childhood

From the Reservation to the River: On the Complexities of Writing About a Native Childhood

Deborah Taffa on Acknowledging America’s Genocide of Native People

By Deborah Taffa | February 28, 2024

Sororal Death and Sad, Sexy Icons: Emmeline Clein on Eating Disorder Memoirs and the Contagion of Identification

Sororal Death and Sad, Sexy Icons: Emmeline Clein on Eating Disorder Memoirs and the Contagion of Identification

“For all the girls who weren’t wrong and all the girls who were.”

By Emmeline Clein | February 28, 2024

Amitava Kumar on Finding Solace in the Words of Others

Amitava Kumar on Finding Solace in the Words of Others

“I was still reporting to my father, the things I had read and all that I had remembered.”

By Amitava Kumar | February 27, 2024

Blackness Beyond America: Shayla Lawson on Global Conceptions of Black Identity

Blackness Beyond America: Shayla Lawson on Global Conceptions of Black Identity

“We don’t just need the summary version of the diasporic experience, we need every story.”

By Shayla Lawson | February 26, 2024

Rethinking “Justice” in the Wake of a Violent Death Close to Home

Rethinking “Justice” in the Wake of a Violent Death Close to Home

Laurence Ralph on Grief and the American Cycle of Vengeance

By Laurence Ralph | February 23, 2024

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When Your Childhood Belongs to Everyone: Growing Up in a Downtown Manhattan That Changed Forever on 9/11

By Emma Dries | February 22, 2024

Erica Berry on the Polyamorous Intimacy of Reader, Author, and Audiobook Narrator

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In Search of the Elusive, Eternal Otter

By Miriam Darlington | February 21, 2024

Amanda Churchill on Embracing Her Japanese Heritage Through Food

Amanda Churchill on Embracing Her Japanese Heritage Through Food

“I wondered why it was Japanese food that I couldn’t get out of my mind.”

By Amanda Churchill | February 20, 2024

Finding a Writing Life of <br>One’s Own

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“I was not writing as an act of defiance or service or claim to myself. I was writing because I wanted to.”

By Seema Reza | February 20, 2024

The Third Person: Writing in the Aftermath of a Home Robbery

The Third Person: Writing in the Aftermath of a Home Robbery

Kate Sidley Wrote About Tidy Mysteries in a Faraway Country. Then Real Violence Came Into Her Home.

By Kate Sidley | February 19, 2024

“Endlessly Seductive, Endlessly Terrifying.” Lucy Sante on the Idea and Reality of Transition

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Considering the Long Journey Towards Embracing the True Self

By Lucy Sante | February 14, 2024

Imaginary Homelands: Lauren Markham Returns to Ancestral Landscapes for the Very First Time

Imaginary Homelands: Lauren Markham Returns to Ancestral Landscapes for the Very First Time

“My ancestors had left Greece; now, a hundred years later, millions were desperate to get here.”

By Lauren Markham | February 13, 2024

Less is More: Shannon Reed on Re-Learning How to Read

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“Reading is no longer a race that I might win, but a lifelong companion.”

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Writing Away the Angel in My Bedroom: On OCD

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