Trauma

Letting the Unspoken Speak: A Reading List of Historical Trauma in Fiction

Etaf Rum Recommends Lisa Ko, Tommy Orange, Lan Cao, and More

 
By Etaf Rum  June 29, 2023
Trauma

What Survivors of Trauma Demand From Their Abusers—and the Public At Large

By Judith L. Herman  March 17, 2023
Trauma

Camonghne Felix on Humiliation, Trauma and Finding Comfort in Computers

By Camonghne Felix  February 16, 2023
Trauma

Tegan Nia Swanson on How to Tell a True Survivor Story

By Tegan Nia Swanson  February 1, 2023
Trauma

“There is Harm In Not Talking About It.” On the Power of Sharing Trauma Narratives

By Lynne Reeves Griffin and Michelle Bowdler  January 19, 2023
Trauma

The Books That Help Beth Macy Find Threads of Hope While Writing About Trauma

By Beth Macy  August 19, 2022
Trauma

Exit Wounds: On the Roots of Violence—and Its Complicated Aftermath

By Jonathan Gleason  January 14, 2022
Trauma

Writing Through Trauma, Past and Present: On the Legacies of Catholic Ireland

By Elaine Feeney  October 20, 2021
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The Challenge of Fictionalizing Sexual Assault

By Alena Dillon  April 22, 2021
Trauma

The Color Purple and the Language of Healing from Trauma

By Salamishah Tillet  January 11, 2021
Trauma

Aubrey Gordon on Dealing With Aggressive Fatphobia

By Aubrey Gordon  December 4, 2020
Trauma

The Many Ways in Which We Lost
Our Grandfather

By K-Ming Chang  October 23, 2020
Trauma

The Inherited Imagination

By Sammi LaBue  August 18, 2020
Trauma

Veronica Esposito on the Book That Changed Her Life

By Veronica Esposito  July 9, 2020
Trauma

Panic is Worse Than Pain: How Fiction Failed Me After Trauma

By Jenn Ashworth  October 18, 2019
Trauma

In the Aftermath of a Plane Crash

By Eduardo Strauch and Mireya Soriano  June 10, 2019
Trauma

Brittany Ackerman Talks Anxiety, Addiction, and the Shiftiness of Memory

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 28, 2018

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