On Death

What Comes For Us All: Read Elias Canetti on the Many Guises of Death

On Those Who End Life and Those Whose Lives End

 
By Elias Canetti  June 21, 2023
On Death

Saying Goodbye: Hannah Lillith Assadi on Brian Cox, Logan Roy, and Her Father

By Hannah Lillith Assadi  May 26, 2023
On Death

“In This Country, We Murder; Then We Honor.” Peter Orner on a Death in the Town His Family Loved

By Peter Orner  October 13, 2022
On Death

Forty-Nine Days of Mourning: On Culture and Ritual at My Father’s Funeral

By E.M. Tran  October 12, 2022
On Death

Alex Kiester on Obsessing Over Her Mother’s (Eventual) Death

By Alex Kiester  June 23, 2022
On Death

Notable Literary Deaths in 2020

By Emily Temple  December 18, 2020
On Death

A Letter From Dorothy Gallagher to Her Late Husband Ben Sonnenberg

By Dorothy Gallagher  October 15, 2020
On Death

On the Challenges of Writing About Death

By Annie Lyons  September 22, 2020
On Death

In a Family of Readers, Packing Up My Late Father’s Library Was Hardest of All

By Seth Greenland  September 16, 2020
On Death

What if Medicine is Not About Preserving Life, But About Humanity?

By Rachel Clarke  September 9, 2020
On Death

The Exhibit That Challenged Our Understanding of Death and the Human Body

By John Troyer  April 29, 2020
On Death

An Intimate Look at Medically Assisted Death

By Diane Rehm  February 13, 2020
On Death

There is No Specific Noun for a Parent Who Has Lost a Child

By Denise Riley  February 10, 2020
On Death

What Neapolitans Understand About Death (Better Than Most)

By Lucia Benavides  January 23, 2020
On Death

Learning of My Father’s Suicide From My Grandmother’s Poetry

By John James  June 14, 2019
On Death

Death and the Poet: Thinking of Whitman at My Husband’s Grave

By Kathleen Volk Miller  May 30, 2019
On Death

Edwidge Danticat on Death, Haiti, and Silver Linings

By Literary Hub  December 2, 2015

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