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Taking a Much-Needed Road Trip to Italy, Texas

Taking a Much-Needed Road Trip to Italy, Texas

Andrea Bajani on Finding a Bit of Home Wherever You Can

By Andrea Bajani | April 12, 2021

What Needs Done: The Love and Burden of a Family Business

What Needs Done: The Love and Burden of a Family Business

Melissa Scholes Young on Three Generations of American Dreaming

By Melissa Scholes Young | April 12, 2021

On Great Literary Loves and the Joyous, Complicated Brilliance of Walt Whitman

On Great Literary Loves and the Joyous, Complicated Brilliance of Walt Whitman

“The first experience of literary love tends, like the first experience of erotic love, to come in youth.”

By Mark Edmundson | April 9, 2021

Searching for Three Generations of Secrets at a French Chateau

Searching for Three Generations of Secrets at a French Chateau

Stephanie Dray on the Historical Mysteries of the
Chateau de Chavaniac

By Stephanie Dray | April 9, 2021

Subverting the Script of the Adoption Industrial Complex

Subverting the Script of the Adoption Industrial Complex

Tiana Nobile on Resisting the Erasure of Adoptees’ Stories

By Tiana Nobile | April 9, 2021

On Finding the Balance Between Solitude and Community at an MFA Program

On Finding the Balance Between Solitude and Community at an MFA Program

For Sanjena Sathian, a Room of One’s Own Came with Roommates

By Sanjena Sathian | April 7, 2021

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Gina Frangello: The Case Against Self-Flagellation in Memoir

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | April 7, 2021

The Joy and Privilege of Growing Up in an Indie Bookstore

By Erik Hoel | April 6, 2021

Saving and Preserving Black Community Spaces on the South Side of Chicago

By Tara Betts | April 6, 2021

Gina Frangello on the Anger That Smolders Behind Adultery

Gina Frangello on the Anger That Smolders Behind Adultery

“I have lost belief in my own high ground.”

By Gina Frangello | April 6, 2021

Haruki Murakami on the Year Dave Hilton Debuted for the Yakult Swallows

Haruki Murakami on the Year Dave Hilton Debuted for the Yakult Swallows

“It felt as if the spring sunlight shone more intensely around him,
and him alone.”

By Haruki Murakami | April 5, 2021

5 Audiobooks for Celebrating the Stories of Trailblazing Women

5 Audiobooks for Celebrating the Stories of Trailblazing Women

James Tate Hill Recommends Elizabeth Blackwell,
Cicely Tyson, and More

By James Tate Hill | April 5, 2021

The Unique Pleasures of Letter-Writing in a Era of Impulsive Interaction

The Unique Pleasures of Letter-Writing in a Era of Impulsive Interaction

Jackie Polzin on the Focused, Private Connections of
Good Correspondence

By Jackie Polzin | April 2, 2021

The Addict as Archaeologist: Telling the Hard Stories of Family Tragedy

The Addict as Archaeologist: Telling the Hard Stories of Family Tragedy

Steven Wingate on the Long Journey to His Latest Novel

By Steven Wingate | April 2, 2021

7 Autobiographies and Memoirs That Remind Us of the Messiness of Memory

7 Autobiographies and Memoirs That Remind Us of the Messiness of Memory

Whitney Otto Recommends Langston Hughes,
Gertrude Stein, and More

By Whitney Otto | March 31, 2021

Melissa Febos on the Uses of the Word “Slut”

Melissa Febos on the Uses of the Word “Slut”

“Oh, was I ever a messy child. A real slut in the making.”

By Melissa Febos | March 30, 2021

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