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On Kathy Acker: A Desk, A Disease, An Accounting

On Kathy Acker: A Desk, A Disease, An Accounting

"I find Kathy’s stuff and have that feeling I sometimes get of not being alone."

By Teresa Rose Carmody | June 19, 2019

Jayson Greene on the Risks of Writing About Grief

Jayson Greene on the Risks of Writing About Grief

"The worst stories are the self-serving ones."

By Hannah Seidlitz | June 17, 2019

Fathers and Sons: The Things We Talk About to Avoid Talking to Each Other

Fathers and Sons: The Things We Talk About to Avoid Talking to Each Other

Dean Kuipers on the Conversations He Didn't Have with His Dad

By Dean Kuipers | June 14, 2019

A Brief Literary History of Absolutely Terrible Dads

A Brief Literary History of Absolutely Terrible Dads

Happy Father's Day! Please Enjoy These Bad Dad Memoirs

By Andrew Thurman | June 14, 2019

Red Sox Great Luis Tiant on Reuniting with His Father After 14 Years

Red Sox Great Luis Tiant on Reuniting with His Father After 14 Years

By a Stroke of Luck Luis Sr. is Allowed by Castro to Leave Cuba

By Luis Tiant | June 14, 2019

Remembering My Father, Jacques Lacan

Remembering My Father, Jacques Lacan

Sibylle Lacan on the Influences of an Absent Father

By Sibylle Lacan | June 14, 2019

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City Lights: A Young Cree Boy Journeys to Edmonton

City Lights: A Young Cree Boy Journeys to Edmonton

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By Darrel J. McLeod | June 12, 2019

In the Aftermath of a Plane Crash

In the Aftermath of a Plane Crash

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By Eduardo Strauch and Mireya Soriano | June 10, 2019

Philippe Petit Meditates on His Life Walking the High Wire

Philippe Petit Meditates on His Life Walking the High Wire

Glimpses of the Finite and Infinite, As Translated by Paul Auster

By Philippe Petit | June 3, 2019

The Unlikely Winner of the World's Toughest Horse Race

The Unlikely Winner of the World's Toughest Horse Race

Alyson Hagy on Rough Magic, Unruly Women, and the Beauty of Horses

By Alyson Hagy | May 30, 2019

On the Parenting Insights of the Non-Parent

On the Parenting Insights of the Non-Parent

Amanda Stern Wrote About Childhood Anxiety So Other Kids Won't Have To

By Amanda Stern | May 30, 2019

Death and the Poet: Thinking of Whitman at My Husband's Grave

Death and the Poet: Thinking of Whitman at My Husband's Grave

Kathleen Volk Miller on the Unlikely Juxtapositions in Life and in Death

By Kathleen Volk Miller | May 30, 2019

On 'Good Men' and the Vague, Low Standards Required<br> to Be One

On 'Good Men' and the Vague, Low Standards Required
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Abi Maxwell Considers the Long Reach of a Teenage Crush

By Abi Maxwell | May 29, 2019

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