intimacy

Two Authors, One Subject: Zoë Eisenberg and Rhaina Cohen on Writing Intimate Friendships

The Author of "Significant Others" and "The Other Significant Others" in Conversation

 
By Literary Hub  July 12, 2024
Writing About Disability

Khadijah Queen on the Value of Intimacy and Self-Care for Someone on the Asexual Spectrum

By Khadijah Queen  May 2, 2024
In Memoriam

Writer, Farmer, Literary Misfit: In Memory of the Late Stanley Crawford

By Alex Trimble Young  March 25, 2024
Zoom Fatigue

Casting Symbolic Intimacy: How TV Can Help Us Get Better at Zoom

By Allison Wyss  December 23, 2022
Correspondence

What a Letter Captures—and Preserves—in the Age of Social Media

By Nikki Erlick  June 28, 2022
Marriage

William H. Gass Considers the Conditions of Adultery

By William H. Gass  July 16, 2021
Feminism

Leila Slimani on Sex and an Ethics of Women’s Liberation in Morocco

By Leïla Slimani  July 13, 2020
Love Stories

André Aciman Finds His Way Back to His Famous Lovers

By Brian Gresko  November 1, 2019
Japan

Pico Iyer on the Infinite
Silences of Japan

By Pico Iyer  September 18, 2019
Conversations

On Writing a Short Story: ‘Everything is Always Happening, All the Time.’

By Brandon Taylor  July 11, 2018
Excerpts

Writing Middle-Aged Love

By Beth Ann Fennelly  October 10, 2017
Personal Essay

When Your Therapist Leaves for Summer Vacation

By Cree LeFavour  August 2, 2017
Personal Essay

Running Towards My Father

By Devin Kelly  June 16, 2017
Conversations

Patricia Lockwood & Mallory Ortberg on Religion, “Daddy,” & Bananas

By Daniel Mallory Ortberg  May 10, 2017
Short story writers

Getting Lost in William Trevor’s Private World

By D. Wystan Owen  December 16, 2016
Essay

On Decades of Diaries: Intimate, Profane, Honest

By Meg Elison  November 28, 2016
Conversations

Helen Garner on Court, Burning Diaries, and the Violence of Love

By John Freeman  September 27, 2016

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