Marlene Adelstein finds herself transported back in time and consciousness via an inherited painting.
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A Portrait of the Mother as a Young Girl
Marlene Adelstein finds herself transported back in time and consciousness via an inherited painting.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
Emotional Preparedness for a Dying Planet
How do we deal emotionally with the many deaths of climate change?
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
An Oregon Wolf, Profiled
A fateful encounter between Oregon’s mightiest wolf and the scientist who would track him for the next six years.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
The Cabin
In a tiny, remote Utah town, Lavinia Spalding learns the difference between longing and belonging.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
Hiking With Nietzsche
An infirmed Friedrich Nietzsche hiked the Swiss Alps to work on his writing. Philosopher John Kaag followed Nietzsche’s trail, taking the great thinker’s ideas out of his books and into the world.
Posted inStory
Behind the Writing: On Research
Sarah Menkedick speaks with Leslie Jamison, Carina Chocano, and Elena Passarello on the art of research.
Posted inNonfiction
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez
In the story of one Mexican-American woman’s life, we can see the whole tragic story of the US-Mexico border’s transformation from a simple chain-link fence to a humanitarian crisis.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Sports, Story, Uncategorized
An Audience of Athletes: The Rise and Fall of Feminist Sports
Billie Jean King once tried to find a sustainable business model for feminist sports coverage. Then women’s fitness tried to revive the swimsuit model.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Science & Nature, Story
Pam Houston on Coming Clean, Climate Change, and ‘Writing Deeply Into the Grasses’
Pam Houston’s new memoir is an ode to her beloved ranch, but also deals directly with the harrowing moments of childhood abuse that her fictional characters have been living through for years.
