Ayşegül Savaş contemplates the way women’s and men’s time is valued and the uneven burden taken by women writers in literary citizenship.
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Rewriting A Symphony In Stone
Summer Brennan considers the art and ritual of reinvention in the history of Notre Dame cathedral, and its witness to a Parisian millennium.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
These Boys and Their Fathers
Trying to form some connection to the father who abandoned him, an outdoorsman surfs the California beach where his father grew up, while looking for answers in the autobiography his father left behind.
Posted inArts & Culture, Food, Highlight, Quotes
A Family’s Pear Pie Tradition Binds Them Together
A woman makes sand-pear pie with her grandmother and remembers a family ritual.
Posted inNonfiction
If You Should Find Yourself in the Dark
Debbie Weingarten considers the anxieties of mothering and being human in a volatile world.
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Took You By Surprise: John and Paul’s Lost Reunion
Five years after the Beatles disbanded, a period fueled by intense acrimony, Lennon and McCartney set aside their differences and got back together one more time. Inside the rollicking atmosphere of that May 1974 recording session.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Food, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
Shovel, Knife, Story, Ax
When you live with animals, you collect killing stories.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Story
The State of the Bookstore Union
The Strand, New York City’s largest independent bookstore, is owned by a millionaire — and the booksellers who work there are all broke.
Posted inReading List
Alternative Reality: An Alt-Weekly Reading List
Nine excellent stories discovered in U.S. alt-weekly newspapers.
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Seeing Private Everyman
Steve Edwards searches for the hidden truths in the public and private sacrifices his granddad made serving in World War II.
