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The Past is a Fairy Tale: On Remembering and Forgetting in Modern Ireland

The Past is a Fairy Tale: On Remembering and Forgetting in Modern Ireland

Clair Wills Considers the Making of Her Mother’s Family Fables

By Clair Wills | April 3, 2024

Seizures, Strokes, and... Spurts of Creativity? On the Symptoms of a Brain Tumor

Seizures, Strokes, and... Spurts of Creativity? On the Symptoms of a Brain Tumor

Rod Nordland Considers the Enduring Mysteries of Cancer's Effects on the Human Body

By Rod Nordland | April 1, 2024

Ream Shukairy on Telling Muslim Stories in an Islamophobic World

Ream Shukairy on Telling Muslim Stories in an Islamophobic World

“May we speak up the veins in our necks bulge. May we walk confidently into rooms demanding to be heard.”

By Ream Shukairy | April 1, 2024

In Defense of Food Memory in Immigrant Fiction

In Defense of Food Memory in Immigrant Fiction

Jessica Yu on the Power of an Oft-Maligned Trope

By Jessica Zhan Mei Yu | April 1, 2024

No Perfect Laps, No Perfect Drafts: Jade Song on What Swimming Taught Her About Writing

No Perfect Laps, No Perfect Drafts: Jade Song on What Swimming Taught Her About Writing

The Author of “Chlorine” Reflects on Being a Teenage Athlete and the Dangers of Perfectionism

By Jade Song | March 28, 2024

Earth, Head, and Heart: Six Deeply Researched Eco-Memoirs

Earth, Head, and Heart: Six Deeply Researched Eco-Memoirs

Greg Wrenn Recommends Florence Williams, Camile Dungy, Elizabeth Rush, and More

By Greg Wrenn | March 27, 2024

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On Publishing My Memoir of Grief As My Father Lays Dying

By Kristine S. Ervin | March 27, 2024

Why I Chose to Be the Cover Model for My Own Novel

By Alvina Chamberland | March 25, 2024

Style As Survival: On Writing After Death

By Joyelle McSweeney | March 25, 2024

Jamie Figueroa on the Fraught Process of (Re)Claiming the Spanish Language

Jamie Figueroa on the Fraught Process of (Re)Claiming the Spanish Language

“With this tongue, with this mouth, I speak, I hold, I force out, I take in.”

By Jamie Figueroa | March 22, 2024

The Writer Next Door: My Life As Joyce Carol Oates’ Neighbor

The Writer Next Door: My Life As Joyce Carol Oates’ Neighbor

“I wanted to believe that Oates knew we existed. While her cat clearly knew who we were, she never did.”

By Mia Manzulli | March 21, 2024

In Search of Visibility: Kao Kalia Yang on Sharing the Hmong Refugee Experience

In Search of Visibility: Kao Kalia Yang on Sharing the Hmong Refugee Experience

“Each story that I share opens me up to and for the world in ways that I never knew were possible.”

By Kao Kalia Yang | March 21, 2024

Elspeth Barker on Jealousy, Truest of Human Vices

Elspeth Barker on Jealousy, Truest of Human Vices

“Female jealousy is associated with witchery, bitchery, dementia, and underhand behavior.”

By Elspeth Barker | March 20, 2024

Marie Mutsuki Mockett on Writing in Times of Sickness and Health

Marie Mutsuki Mockett on Writing in Times of Sickness and Health

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Tree Doctor”

By Jane Ciabattari | March 19, 2024

Francophone, Anglophone... Cameroonian? Musih Tedji Xaviere on Telling the Story of Her Country’s Struggles

Francophone, Anglophone... Cameroonian? Musih Tedji Xaviere on Telling the Story of Her Country’s Struggles

"I realized I didn't care anymore about my fears, the object of my limitations."

By Musih Tedji Xaviere | March 18, 2024

Fashionably Old: Lyn Slater on Aging With Attitude

Fashionably Old: Lyn Slater on Aging With Attitude

“It’s time to write a new story, to reuse in imaginative ways garments that already hang in my closet.”

By Lyn Slater | March 15, 2024

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