Memoirs with Benefits: A Reading List of Hybrid Narratives

Memoirs with Benefits: A Reading List of Hybrid Narratives

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Searching for the Ghosts of My Father’s Life in Hungary

Searching for the Ghosts of My Father’s Life in Hungary

Karen Winn on Traveling Overseas to Find the Parent She Had Lost

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What William Blake Might Tell Us About Our Transhuman Future

What William Blake Might Tell Us About Our Transhuman Future

John Higgs in Conversation with Andrew Keen

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Why Queer Stories Deserve Happy Endings

Why Queer Stories Deserve Happy Endings

Susie Dumond on Positive Role Models

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Why We Turn to Myths to Untangle Old Problems

Why We Turn to Myths to Untangle Old Problems

Jennifer Saint on Feminist Retellings of Ancient Stories

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The Story That Saved Me: On Writing My Way Out of a Life That No Longer Felt Like Mine

The Story That Saved Me: On Writing My Way Out of a Life That No Longer Felt Like Mine

Lauren McBrayer’s Novel Showed up Exactly When She Needed It

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