Everyone laughs at how ridiculous makeover scenes are, but these swift internal metamorphoses aren’t much better.
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School for Girls
Years after recovering from anorexia, Jasmin Sandelson writes a letter to the high school friend she idolized, and explores how hunger, love, and envy shaped — and ended — their relationship.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
An Education in Doubt
In her memoir ‘Educated,’ Tara Westover studies herself to safety, but books can’t rescue her from the memories of sustained violence.
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A Prescription for Forgetting
Diane Mehta tries to manage anxiety with meditation that requires her to discard all her memories.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
My Brother, My Self
Katie Prout tries to untangle the story of her brother’s complicated, life-long battle with alcoholism against the backdrop of her family’s history of addiction.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
My Brother, My Self
Katie Prout tries to untangle the story of her brother’s complicated, life-long battle with alcoholism against the backdrop of her family’s history of addiction.
Posted inNonfiction
Anaphylaxis of the Mind
Alyson Pomerantz reframes her understanding of illness when an allergic reaction turns out to be something else.
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America’s Duded-Up Kitchens
Companies have re-coded their appliances to capitalize on men’s entry into the kitchen, and they’ve taken their stereotypes with them.
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Walking Through the Past Into New Motherhood
A new mother struggles to make sense of intergenerational trauma, biological memory and the guilty privilege of passing as white even though she is Jewish.
