Harmony Holiday remembers her mother’s years of trauma-bonding in search of new love, after the death of her mercurial yet brilliant father.
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On Being an Ill Woman: A Reading List of Doctors’ Dismissal and Disbelief
Eight stories of being ill and being dismissed by the medical establishment.
Posted inHistory, Nonfiction, Quotes
To Be a Lexicographer Is to Surrender to Folly
On the never-ending, unattainable quest to create the perfect English dictionary.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Food, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Writing
Helen Oyeyemi on ‘Gingerbread,’ Fairy Tales, and What Self-Branding Is Doing to Childhood
“I was thinking a lot about childhood as this special status, an almost endangered status … that is eroded the more that we start thinking of ourselves as these units of value and worrying about what we’re worth.”
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Uncategorized
Where the Trouble Started
Decades after a childhood sexual assault, Saidee Sonnenberg tries to make sense of what happened.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story, Uncategorized
Where the Trouble Started
Decades after a childhood sexual assault, Saidee Sonnenberg tries to make sense of what happened.
Posted inCulture, Story
Lumbersexuality, a Sport and a Pastime
Why do people — mostly men — want to throw axes and dress like lumberjacks?
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 inBlog Post, Reading List
Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate for a Nation Divided
The Librarian of Congress hailed Smith as a “poet of searching.”
Posted inNonfiction
On Silence (or, Speak Again)
Elissa Bassist breaks her silence about everything she’s not supposed to talk about and comes out alive.
