“The Many Sick Mothers of My Heart.” Life at the Intersection of Sickness and Trauma

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Margeaux Feldman Considers Individual and Societal Attitudes Towards Physical, Mental and Chronic Illness

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Every Complicated Family is Complicated in Its Own Way: A Reading List

Every Complicated Family is Complicated in Its Own Way: A Reading List

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Sasha Bonét on Black Motherhood, Fragmented Storytelling, and Untangling History

Sasha Bonét on Black Motherhood, Fragmented Storytelling, and Untangling History

G'Ra Asim Talks to the Author of “The Waterbearers”

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Why Are There So Few Books About Mothers and Sons?

Why Are There So Few Books About Mothers and Sons?

Sam Sussman on Writing a Book About His Mother

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Sara Stridsberg on Reading Omar El Akkad Amidst the Serbian Protests

Sara Stridsberg on Reading Omar El Akkad Amidst the Serbian Protests

“I still take El Akkad’s book with me everywhere, holding it tight as if it can save my soul. It can’t.”

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The Link Between Trauma, Drug Use, and Our Search to Feel Better

The Link Between Trauma, Drug Use, and Our Search to Feel Better

“As capitalism has invented ever more ways to be miserable, so too has it invented ever more specific ways to ease that misery.”

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On Reckoning with Her Mother’s Silent Treatment

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Failing Better: On The Tennis Player and The Writer

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On Not Writing, and Letting Wildness Be Your Guide

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