My Little Drug Story: David Sanchez on (Begrudgingly) Turning to Autofiction

My Little Drug Story: David Sanchez on (Begrudgingly) Turning to Autofiction

On Addiction Tropes, “Grittiness,” and the Freedom to Focus on Ideas

By David Sanchez | January 19, 2022

Watching <em>My Neighbor Totoro</em> on the Eve of My Daughters’ Omicron-Surge Return to School

Watching My Neighbor Totoro on the Eve of My Daughters’ Omicron-Surge Return to School

Anri Wheeler Muses on What It Means to Live Communally

By Anri Wheeler | January 18, 2022

Exit Wounds: On the Roots of Violence—and Its Complicated Aftermath

Exit Wounds: On the Roots of Violence—and Its Complicated Aftermath

"Fear nests within other fears, is encircled by it."

By Jonathan Gleason | January 14, 2022

Kathryn Schulz on the Interplay of Joy and Grief in Our Lives

Kathryn Schulz on the Interplay of Joy and Grief in Our Lives

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | January 13, 2022

Leigh Stein on Reading Anne Frank During Quarantine

Leigh Stein on Reading Anne Frank During Quarantine

On the Extraordinary Work of Diarists to Create Meaning from Dramatic, Quotidian Times

By Leigh Stein | January 13, 2022

A Beautiful Sadness: On the People and Places That Will Forever Haunt Us

A Beautiful Sadness: On the People and Places That Will Forever Haunt Us

Hanna Lillith Assadi Tells the Story of Her Grandmother’s Life

By Hannah Lillith Assadi | January 13, 2022

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Edgar Gomez on Sex, Desire, and Going on PrEP

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Bridging the Gap Between My Two Cultures with Fictional Foods

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Life and Death Among the Vanished in the Himalayas’ Parvati Valley

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The Creative Power of Rage: On Fictionalizing the Lives of Righteously Violent Historical Women

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Gwen E. Kirby on Her Literary “Stabby Period”

By Gwen E. Kirby | January 11, 2022

The Disorientation and Relief of Owning My Submissiveness

The Disorientation and Relief of Owning My Submissiveness

Rachel Krantz, author of Open, on the Power of “Daddy”

By Rachel Krantz | January 10, 2022

My Hundred-Year-Old Boyfriend: On Hermann Hesse’s <em>Siddhartha</em>

My Hundred-Year-Old Boyfriend: On Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha

Andre Bagoo Looks Back on Some Very Earthly Attachments

By Andre Bagoo | January 10, 2022

The 6 Self-Help Books That Changed My Life

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Radhika Sanghani Recommends Uplifting Reads

By Radhika Sanghani | January 10, 2022

Dissolving Genre: Toward Finding New Ways to Write About the World

Dissolving Genre: Toward Finding New Ways to Write About the World

Ingrid Horrocks on Reimagining the Relationship Between the Human and the Non-Human

By Ingrid Horrocks | January 6, 2022

Brooklyn Is Where the Heart Is: On Leaving Home to Write About It

Brooklyn Is Where the Heart Is: On Leaving Home to Write About It

Xochitl Gonzalez Considers the Power of Memory in Creating Literary Detail

By Xochitl Gonzalez | January 6, 2022

My Year of Yes: On Falling in Love with Competitive Tennis at Age 41

My Year of Yes: On Falling in Love with Competitive Tennis at Age 41

Scarlett Thomas Considers Her Newfound Passion for the Sport

By Scarlett Thomas | January 6, 2022

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