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Kerri Arsenault on Life and Death in a Maine Mill Town

Kerri Arsenault on Life and Death in a Maine Mill Town

What We'll Never Know About Capitalism's Toxic Aftermath

By Kerri Arsenault | September 1, 2020

Dr. Michele Harper: Healing Yourself by Understanding How to Heal Others

Dr. Michele Harper: Healing Yourself by Understanding How to Heal Others

This Week on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | August 28, 2020

On the Opioid Crisis and <br>the Grief of Ohio

On the Opioid Crisis and
the Grief of Ohio

David Giffels Considers Rural Addiction and the Need
for a Multitude of Voices

By David Giffels | August 26, 2020

Three Authors Leave, Stay, Dream, and Long for Elsewhere

Three Authors Leave, Stay, Dream, and Long for Elsewhere

Jhumpa Lahiri, Eduardo Halfon, and Ilan Stavans in Conversation

By Jhumpa Lahiri, Eduardo Halfon, and Ilan Stavans | August 24, 2020

Why Have We Failed to Protect Coal Miners?

Why Have We Failed to Protect Coal Miners?

Chris Hamby on One of America's Most Dangerous Jobs

By Chris Hamby | August 21, 2020

In Defense of Psychoanalysis and Writing Freudian Fiction

In Defense of Psychoanalysis and Writing Freudian Fiction

Jessica Gross Goes Deep to Figure It All Out

By Jessica Gross | August 19, 2020

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Kate Zambreno on Giving Birth as an Act of Decreation

By Thresholds | August 19, 2020

Reconstructing the Self Through Memoir, After Psychosis

By Catherine Cho | August 17, 2020

How Boomers Changed American Family Life (By Getting Divorced)

By Jill Filipovic | August 13, 2020

A Letter to My Son: Kirsten West Savali on Motherhood and Ancestral Resilience

A Letter to My Son: Kirsten West Savali on Motherhood and Ancestral Resilience

"Our family’s legacy is too deep and our love too strong for a badge-wearing coward to strip away."

By Kirsten West Savali | August 13, 2020

When One Doctor-Turned-Novelist Reads Another

When One Doctor-Turned-Novelist Reads Another

Dr. Melanie Cheng Revisits the Fiction of Jacinta Halloran

By Melanie Cheng | August 11, 2020

The Trap of Pursuing Well-Being... And the Billion-Dollar Industry Behind It

The Trap of Pursuing Well-Being... And the Billion-Dollar Industry Behind It

Gelong Thubten on Escaping "the Cultural Disease of Our Times"

By Gelong Thubten | August 10, 2020

Laura Lippman on Diets, Incels, Frankenfoods, and Not Caring<br> About Any of It

Laura Lippman on Diets, Incels, Frankenfoods, and Not Caring
About Any of It

Or: The Longue Durée of Self-Acceptance

By Laura Lippman | August 6, 2020

On Flannery O’Connor’s Chronic Illness... and Chronic Racism

On Flannery O’Connor’s Chronic Illness... and Chronic Racism

Maggie Levantovskaya Searches for Literary Narratives of Lupus

By Maggie Levantovskaya | August 6, 2020

Letter to a Daughter Who Will Wear Two Masks

Letter to a Daughter Who Will Wear Two Masks

Jasmon Drain on What is Covered and Hidden

By Jasmon Drain | August 6, 2020

With Pandemic Information Overload How Can We Tell What is Real?

With Pandemic Information Overload How Can We Tell What is Real?

Terrence Holt on Common Distortions and False Equivalencies

By Terrence Holt | August 4, 2020

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