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The Heartbreaking Ingenuity of the Mother-Writer

The Heartbreaking Ingenuity of the Mother-Writer

Olivia Campbell Explores What It Takes to Balance Art and Parenting in America

By Olivia Campbell | September 3, 2021

The Ambiguous Loss of (Probably) Not Selling My Novel

The Ambiguous Loss of (Probably) Not Selling My Novel

Danielle Lazarin on Life and Art in the Liminal Spaces Between Grief and Hope

By Danielle Lazarin | September 2, 2021

To Be Pure: On Doubt, the Rules of Jewish Identity, and Questions of Familial Inheritance

To Be Pure: On Doubt, the Rules of Jewish Identity, and Questions of Familial Inheritance

Deborah Feldman Recounts Lessons Learned from Her Grandmother and Her Early Crisis of Faith

By Deborah Feldman | September 2, 2021

What Would Marcel Proust’s Instagram Grid Look Like?

What Would Marcel Proust’s Instagram Grid Look Like?

Meredith Westgate Wonders About the Role of Memory in the Age of Social Media

By Meredith Westgate | September 1, 2021

Too Close To Home: Writing a Book That Your Parents Won’t Read

Too Close To Home: Writing a Book That Your Parents Won’t Read

Michelle Jana Chan on the Power of Family to Shape Your Own Narrative

By Michelle Jana Chan | August 27, 2021

Chronicle of a Death Foretold: On War, Reincarnation, and the Changing Names of Myanmar

Chronicle of a Death Foretold: On War, Reincarnation, and the Changing Names of Myanmar

Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint Finds Connections With Her Great-Grandfather

By Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint | August 27, 2021

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Matt Bell in Praise of Genre Agnosticism

By New Books Network | August 27, 2021

Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood

By Ellen O'Connell Whittet | August 26, 2021

Deborah Levy: Finding a Room House of One’s Own

By Deborah Levy | August 26, 2021

Seeing Yourself in the Gaze of Others: On Disability and the Freedom of Youth

Seeing Yourself in the Gaze of Others: On Disability and the Freedom of Youth

Jan Grue Navigates the Social Politics of Visibility

By Jan Grue | August 26, 2021

The Beginning of the End: Who Do We Become in the Face of a Parent’s Death?

The Beginning of the End: Who Do We Become in the Face of a Parent’s Death?

Kat Chow on Losing Her Mother, Memory, and Writing About Illness

By Kat Chow | August 25, 2021

Why is Yves Saint Laurent’s “Sardine Dress” So Compelling?

Why is Yves Saint Laurent’s “Sardine Dress” So Compelling?

Alison Hawthorne Deming on the Art and Inspiration of an Iconic Dress

By Alison Hawthorne Deming | August 25, 2021

I Bark, Therefore I Am: Of Consciousness and Robot Dogs

I Bark, Therefore I Am: Of Consciousness and Robot Dogs

Meghan O’Gieblyn Considers Issues of Mind, Matter, and Soul

By Meghan O'Gieblyn | August 24, 2021

The Long Unpredictable Life of Art: Francine Prose on Teaching James Alan McPherson to Incarcerated Students

The Long Unpredictable Life of Art: Francine Prose on Teaching James Alan McPherson to Incarcerated Students

Remembering a Dear Friend Through His Work

By Francine Prose | August 23, 2021

My Year of Mourning: Mapping the Full Cycle of the Loss of My Father

My Year of Mourning: Mapping the Full Cycle of the Loss of My Father

Merissa Nathan Gerson’s Notes on Grief

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Read a previously unpublished Ursula K. Le Guin poem.

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