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“You Can’t Hide the Ocean.” On Finding My Way to the Interminable Sea

“You Can’t Hide the Ocean.” On Finding My Way to the Interminable Sea

Cai Chongda Remembers Coming of Age on the Coast

By Cai Chongda | July 9, 2021

WATCH: Brian Broome, Nichole Perkins, Lilly Dancyger, and Courtney Cook at the Franklin Park Reading Series

WATCH: Brian Broome, Nichole Perkins, Lilly Dancyger, and Courtney Cook at the Franklin Park Reading Series

Marae Hart Hosts Memoir Night

By The Virtual Book Channel | July 9, 2021

In Praise of the Great Rats in Literature. Literally.

In Praise of the Great Rats in Literature. Literally.

Austin Ratner on the Most Maligned Animal in the History of Art

By Austin Ratner | July 8, 2021

Summers of Discovery: Adventures in Greece with Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen

Summers of Discovery: Adventures in Greece with Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen

Judy Scott on the Intensity of Found Families

By Judy Scott | July 8, 2021

What Do You Do When a Short Story Wants to Be a Novel?

What Do You Do When a Short Story Wants to Be a Novel?

Rachel Donohue on the Character That Wouldn't Leave Her Alone

By Rachel Donohue | July 8, 2021

What the Dead Leave Behind: On the Way a Life Can Inhabit a House

What the Dead Leave Behind: On the Way a Life Can Inhabit a House

Emily Austin Navigates the Grief That Lurks Within the Best of Memories

By Emily Austin | July 8, 2021

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We Don’t Celebrate the Boring Years of Social Movements—But We Should

By Julia Baird | July 7, 2021

In the Footsteps of Garibaldi: Tim Parks Traverses Italy—and Two Centuries of History

By Tim Parks | July 7, 2021

How Many “Types” of Stories Are There? And Can They Save Us?

By David Chrisinger | July 7, 2021

Surviving Tough Love: Growing Up as the Child of Chinese Immigrants

Surviving Tough Love: Growing Up as the Child of Chinese Immigrants

Elina Zhang on the Lessons of Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things

By Elina Zhang | July 7, 2021

On E.M. Forster’s <em>Maurice</em> and the Urgency of Expanding Queer Genealogies

On E.M. Forster’s Maurice and the Urgency of Expanding Queer Genealogies

William di Canzio on the Personal and Literary Inspirations
Behind His Novel

By William di Canzio | July 6, 2021

A Daughter of the Samurai: On the Strength, Tradition, and Rebellion of Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto

A Daughter of the Samurai: On the Strength, Tradition, and Rebellion of Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto

Karen Tei Yamashita and Yuki Obayashi Discuss the Memoir of an Extraordinary Life

By Karen Tei Yamashita and Yuki Obayashi | July 6, 2021

The Gateway to Friendship: How and—Why—I Befriended a Wild Fox

The Gateway to Friendship: How and—Why—I Befriended a Wild Fox

Catherine Raven on Interspecies Empathy and an Unexpected Furry Companion

By Catherine Raven | July 6, 2021

You Are Not Your Pain: On Depression, Self-Sabotage, and Emotional Resilience

You Are Not Your Pain: On Depression, Self-Sabotage, and Emotional Resilience

Matt Haig Considers the Downfalls of Binary Thinking

By Matt Haig | July 6, 2021

Gina Rae La Cerva: The Life Story of a Family Recipe

Gina Rae La Cerva: The Life Story of a Family Recipe

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | July 6, 2021

Beauty After Brutality: On Healing and Reclaiming My Existence in the Wake of Racial Trauma

Beauty After Brutality: On Healing and Reclaiming My Existence in the Wake of Racial Trauma

Anita Sethi Takes a Journey of Self-Discovery Through the Pennines

By Anita Sethi | July 2, 2021

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