Carmel Mc Mahon contemplates the legacy of trauma passed down through generations of Irish women.
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After Three Children, Reclaiming My Body and My Mind
In the wake of childbirth and postpartum complications affecting her mental health and her marriage, Ukamaka Olisakwe picks herself up and starts over — in grad school.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
The Leaves, They Never Stop Falling
Colin Dickey remembers a departed friend and a tree that won’t die.
Posted inNonfiction
The Girl I Didn’t Save
Cameron Dezen Hammon reflects on her frustrations as a Christian music minister for the terminally ill, unable to heal a cancer patient she cared for, and struggling to be compassionate at her belligerent Jewish father’s bedside.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Everything is Fine
Sara Fredman thinks about the voices in her life as she raises young children and reckons with her fading father.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Everything is Fine
Sara Fredman thinks about the voices in her life as she raises young children and reckons with her fading father.
Posted inNonfiction
Hot for Teacher
When a student in her writing workshop submits a piece suggesting his character could ‘take’ a teacher just like her ‘atop her desk,’ Courtney Zoffness is flooded with memories of men touching her against her will.
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The Story of Salvador’s Banda Didá
In a country with violent history and violent politics, Brazil’s first all-female, Afro-Brazilian percussion group drums and dances and changes lives.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story
Guns and Marriage
Simone Gorrindo struggles to make peace with the violence that puts food on her table.
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Fashions Fade, But Fleabag Is Forever
The jumpsuit is great, but it won’t get you a hot priest or a BAFTA — you’re not Fleabag (or Phoebe Waller-Bridge).
