Essays, reading lists, and editors’ picks on relationships, breakups, and many different kinds of love.
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Object Relations
“In Vermont, a person is not beholden to the restrictions of private property: anyone may walk anywhere, pass through anyone’s land.”
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Surfing the American Dream
“There’s a new fad in the sport I love. I should have hated it. Deep in a mega-mall, I surprised myself by how much it stirred in me.”
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Down and Out in Bedford Falls
“‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ and the dream of small-town life.”
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Daylighting a Brook in the Bronx
“An ode to an underground waterway and the restorative effort to unbury it.”
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Stumbling Can Be Lovely
On the many ways we fall—and the beauty of getting back up.
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Three Strings: Past, Present, and Future
Finding beauty, human connection, and one’s heritage in the resonant sounds of the dulcimer.
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Century-Scale Storage
“If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?”
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Best of 2022: Personal Essays
Five notable personal essays published this year, on friendship, loss, war, endings, and metaphors.
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To Catch a Sunset
“Reflections on allergies, anxieties, and the limits of familial love.”
