names

Canine Charms: Markus Zusak on Rescuing a Dog and Naming It After a Character in His Fiction

How Reuben the Rottweiler Shepherd Mix Jumped from Page to Life

 
By Markus Zusak  January 21, 2025
Family Histories

Mihret Sibhat on the Stories Our Names Tell

By Mihret Sibhat  July 26, 2023
Origin Stories

What Was Desired Before You Were Born: Remica Bingham-Risher on the Weight of Names

By Remica Bingham-Risher  August 31, 2022
Origin Stories

The Alchemy of Language: Ina Cariño on Naming, Claiming, and Protecting Ancestral Land

By Ina Cariño  July 1, 2022
Romance

In the Name of Love: How A Punk Rock God Snuck Into My Romance Novel

By Seth Kaufman  June 3, 2022
Identity

On Romanizing Korean Names and Writing Immigrant Stories in an Acquired Language

By Yoon Choi  August 18, 2021
Otherppl

Travis Hoewischer on the Pressure of Naming a Baby (Unless You’re Harry Styles’s Parents)

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 2, 2020
Short Stories

Mimi Lok on Writing in (and For) the Margins

By Dave Eggers  November 6, 2019
Friendship

Walking Through the Woods of Midtown with Jessica Francis Kane

By Brian Gresko  May 20, 2019
Craft and Criticism

What John Hughes Taught Me About
the Importance of a Name

By Sloane Tanen  April 4, 2019
Personal Essay

Is Your Name Your Destiny?

By Catherine Buni  April 3, 2017
Personal Essay

When You Name Your Fictional War Criminal After a Real Man By Accident

By David Savill  January 13, 2017
Op-Ed

A Jarring Choice at the National Museum of African-American History

By Summer McDonald  September 30, 2016

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