Red lipstick is more than a cosmetic. In this reading list, Alison Fishburn explores its power.
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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
What’s Happening to My Body?
Devorah Heitner reflects on the ways she is reclaiming her relationship to her own body while grappling with the legacy of her mother’s poor body image and early death.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Science & Nature, Story
‘I Went Quiet…and That Allowed Me To Understand’: The Life of a Molecatcher
Marc Hamer discusses life, death, and the lost art of catching a mole.
Posted inStory
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Orchids
Sometimes a flower is just a flower, and sometimes it’s a powerful vehicle for giving free rein to our worst colonialist and misogynist impulses.
Posted inReading List
Women and Pain: A Reading List
“…how do we begin to change the narrative of how women’s pain is perceived, understood, and treated?”
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes
The Slow Regard of a Difficult Past
“In my family, love was the slow accumulation of moments in which I was not subjected to great harm.”
Posted inNonfiction
Liberation: a Love Story (and a Reckoning)
Rebecca Wong integrates new information into her understanding and appreciation of her grandfather, and how he survived the Holocaust.
Posted inNonfiction
Hello, Forgetfulness; Hello, Mother
Peering into the mirror of her mother, Marcia Aldrich wonders whether she too is sentenced to dementia.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
The Memoirist’s Dilemma
Fourteen years after her memoir about about her father’s death was released, novelist Aminatta Forna still deals with after-effects, both good and bad.
Posted inNonfiction
Uncertain Ground
Grace Loh Prasad realizes that mourning is complicated when home and homeland aren’t the same place.
