Intimacy and Manipulation: A Reading List of Fictional Diaries

Intimacy and Manipulation: A Reading List of Fictional Diaries

Elizabeth Brooks Recommends Books by E.M. Delafield, Margaret Forster, and More

By Elizabeth Brooks | September 28, 2022

David Milch on Language and Obscenity in <em>Deadwood</em>

David Milch on Language and Obscenity in Deadwood

The Series Creator on Westerns, Civility, and Iambic Pentameter

By David Milch | September 28, 2022

How Amnesia Helped Ingrid Rojas Contreras Tell Her Family’s Stories

How Amnesia Helped Ingrid Rojas Contreras Tell Her Family’s Stories

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | September 28, 2022

Annie Ernaux on the “Infinite Lack” in Our Search for Love

Annie Ernaux on the “Infinite Lack” in Our Search for Love

“Passion fills life to bursting.”

By Annie Ernaux | September 27, 2022

Kamila Shamsie on Finding the Perfect Writing Space

Kamila Shamsie on Finding the Perfect Writing Space

“Perhaps there is no such thing as my writing space except wherever I happen to find myself.”

By Kamila Shamsie | September 27, 2022

Six Books That Explore Loss Through Poetic Means

Six Books That Explore Loss Through Poetic Means

Juliet Patterson on Picking Up the Pieces with the Help of Literature

By Juliet Patterson | September 27, 2022

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Julia Reed on the Memories Woven Into Well-Worn Clothes

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Conjuring Family Through Sour Cream Sugar Cookies

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The Difficulty of Writing About Male Intimacy

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Malaka Gharib on a Summer in Egypt and Learning to Love Her Stepmother

Malaka Gharib on a Summer in Egypt and Learning to Love Her Stepmother

From her Graphic Memoir, It Won't Always Be Like This

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Allure and Illusions: My Seven-Year-Old, Me, and the Cult of Gymnastics

Allure and Illusions: My Seven-Year-Old, Me, and the Cult of Gymnastics

Alison Wisdom Finds Similarities Between an Elite Sport and a Fundamentalist Church

By Alison Wisdom | September 21, 2022

Screaming in Secret: Dahlia Lithwick on the Women Who Work Within the Legal System

Screaming in Secret: Dahlia Lithwick on the Women Who Work Within the Legal System

“For all the flaws of the legal system, of the court system, and even of the #MeToo movement, it helped us find our way to one another.”

By Dahlia Lithwick | September 20, 2022

Where Blackness is a World of Possibility

Where Blackness is a World of Possibility

Hafizah Augustus Geter on the Shape of Black Joy

By Hafizah Augustus Geter | September 20, 2022

How the Trapper Keeper Shaped a Generation of Writers

How the Trapper Keeper Shaped a Generation of Writers

Jess deCourcy Hinds on the Most Popular School Supply of All Time

By Jess deCourcy Hinds | September 19, 2022

Exploring Spaces Between Experiences and Stories: Rachel Aviv and Chloé Cooper Jones in Conversation

Exploring Spaces Between Experiences and Stories: Rachel Aviv and Chloé Cooper Jones in Conversation

The Author of Strangers to Ourselves Discusses Diagnoses, Introspection, and the Collaborative Process of Writing about Real People

By Chloé Cooper Jones | September 19, 2022

The Lost Stitch, The Loosened Tile: Akiko Busch on the Ambiguities of Home

The Lost Stitch, The Loosened Tile: Akiko Busch on the Ambiguities of Home

“I remember the feel of these rooms much more than I even remember the people in them.”

By Akiko Busch | September 19, 2022

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