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Clocks, Cameras, Cracked Doll Faces: The Confessions of a Serial Collector

Clocks, Cameras, Cracked Doll Faces: The Confessions of a Serial Collector

Nancy Miller Gomez on the Origins and Evolution of an Obsession

By Nancy Miller Gomez | May 20, 2024

My Mother Will Live Forever in the Stories of Alice Munro

My Mother Will Live Forever in the Stories of Alice Munro

Jonny Diamond on the Timeless Genius of Canada’s Greatest Writer

By Jonny Diamond | May 16, 2024

A bunch of fake Kathleen Hanna biographies were released on the same day as her new memoir.

A bunch of fake Kathleen Hanna biographies were released on the same day as her new memoir.

By Brittany Allen | May 15, 2024

What Freudian Psychoanalysis Gets Wrong About Trans Identity

What Freudian Psychoanalysis Gets Wrong About Trans Identity

Jennifer Finney Boylan Considers “Penis Envy” In the Context of Dysphoria

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | May 15, 2024

Kiyo Sato on Japanese American Incarceration’s Language of Dehumanization

Kiyo Sato on Japanese American Incarceration’s Language of Dehumanization

“Here’s the truth: I am now called a non-alien, stripped of my constitutional rights.”

By Kiyo Sato | May 15, 2024

Lilly Dancyger on How to Support a Friend Through Grief

Lilly Dancyger on How to Support a Friend Through Grief

“Remember that there’s nothing you can say to make it better. Say only that you’re so sorry, so so sorry.”

By Lilly Dancyger | May 14, 2024

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The Breasts Make the Woman... Or Do They? On Having (and Losing) a Pair

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Invisible Women: On the Victorian Custom of Cutting Mothers Out of Portraits

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Ellen O’Connell Whittet Considers the Photographic Evidence of Maternal Erasure

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A Different Kind of Dad Book: Lucas Mann on Fatherhood, Writing, and the Essay as an Act of Care

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How the Beloved Memory of Dead Pets Can Help Guide the Writing Process

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Simon Van Booy on Letting Go and Following the Story Wherever It Takes Him

By Simon Van Booy | May 9, 2024

Why You Should Keep a Garden Journal (Even if You Don’t Have a Garden)

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Fiona Warnick on the Question of What Is Worth Documenting

By Fiona Warnick | May 9, 2024

How Pregnancy Forever Transforms the Body and the Mind

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Lucy Jones on the Eternal Biological Bonds Between Mothers and Children

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