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What My Grandmother’s Death Folder Taught Me About Love and Duty

What My Grandmother’s Death Folder Taught Me About Love and Duty

Eden Royce on the Importance of Taking Care of Funerary Details in the Face of Grief

By Eden Royce | October 1, 2025

Mother Tongues: Reflections on Memory, Language, and Love in Germany

Mother Tongues: Reflections on Memory, Language, and Love in Germany

Tamar Shapiro: “I owe this book to my mother. It is not about her, and yet she is on every page.”

By Tamar Shapiro | October 1, 2025

What Our Relationship With Cats Reveals About Ourselves

What Our Relationship With Cats Reveals About Ourselves

Rebecca van Laer: “If dogs are our servants, cats are our shadows.”

By Rebecca van Laer | September 30, 2025

What Are We Getting Out of Mythology?

What Are We Getting Out of Mythology?

Seamus Sullivan on Honesty and Mercy in Reading Myths

By Seamus Sullivan | September 29, 2025

A Pilgrimage to Monk’s House, Where Virginia Woolf Found a Room of Her Own

A Pilgrimage to Monk’s House, Where Virginia Woolf Found a Room of Her Own

Katie da Cunha Lewin on the Role of Writing Spaces in the Creative Lives of Virginia Woolf and Other Literary Icons

By Katie da Cunha Lewin | September 26, 2025

Against True Crime Sensationalism

Against True Crime Sensationalism

Prison Journalist John J. Lennon on Exploitative Entertainment and Life in Sing Sing

By John J. Lennon | September 24, 2025

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Understanding My Mother Through the Movies She Made

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“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

By Margeaux Feldman | September 22, 2025

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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By Jeremy B. Jones | September 17, 2025

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”

By G'ra Asim | September 16, 2025

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

By Sam Sussman | September 16, 2025

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.”

By Sara Stridsberg | September 15, 2025

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.”

By P.E. Moskowitz | September 11, 2025

Spells, Skepticism, and Surrender: What Happens When the Agent Becomes the Author

Spells, Skepticism, and Surrender: What Happens When the Agent Becomes the Author

Samantha Browning Shea on Breaking Her Own Rules

By Samantha Browning Shea | September 10, 2025

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