Elisabeth Donnelly looks back at a relationship with a wily cat during a lonely time in upstate New York.
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I’ve Done a Lot of Forgetting
When I was a kid, I wanted my antisemitic tormentors to accept me. I wanted to be their friend.
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Who Do You Belong To?
When she dipped her heart into someone else’s relationship, Emily Lackey discovered how to define love on her own terms.
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At Transformation
On the cusp of a life-changing procedure, Jane Rideau Demuth makes peace with the paths that brought her here, and the obstacles she had to wrestle with along the way.
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The Erotic Thriller’s Little Death
What/If references the celebrated steamy genre of the 80s and 90s, but lacks its guts. Why can’t any of the new neo-noirs go all the way?
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Confessions of a Lapsed Catholic Dancer
Kate Branca considers the body as an instrument of faith.
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Shovel, Knife, Story, Ax
When you live with animals, you collect killing stories.
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America Is Still Hard To Find
Kathleen Alcott’s latest novel is a dramatic reenactment of the ethical dilemmas posed in antiwar activist Father Daniel Berrigan’s ’60s manifesto.
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How Refugees Die
Wars and heightened border security have created a humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean.