What do we get from our parents? An inheritance always comes with a tax.
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What It’s Like to Lose Your Short-Term Memory
An exclusive excerpt from the new memoir by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee.
Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction
‘We Need to Have A Voice In This America, Too’
A gay couple got tickets to the inauguration when they thought Hillary Clinton would win. They decided to come anyway.
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ENG 650 (Forms): The Russian Short Story in Translation (for Writers) Thursdays, 9:30 – 12:15, Bowne Hall 110 Office Hours: By appointment. * * * Ethos: This class is intended not as a survey of the Russian short story, but rather as a chance to read (very closely) a selected number of great stories from […]
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Twinless in Twinsburg
Anya Groner examines her experience of being an identical twin through the lens of an annual Twins Day festival she attended without her sister.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Currency of Cars: How to Leave a Husband
The rickety ’98 Volvo wagon didn’t look like much, but it provided Debbie Weingarten and her children safe passage to a new life.
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Living in the Aftershock of Someone Else’s Earthquake
A decade after her mother’s death, Ashley Abramson reflects on being raised by a parent addicted to opioids.
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How a Journalist Uncovered the True Identity of Jihadi John
Souad Mekhennet’s thrilling tale of late-night rendezvous, burner phones, and secret codes — and her quest to reveal the man in black.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
After Marriage Equality, to Party, or to Protest?
Spenser Mestel recalls the emotionally complicated day, two years ago, when the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
Against Confession: On Intersectional Feminism, Radical Catholicism, and Redefining Remorse
Laura Goode investigates her Catholic identity—the radical, feminist, social-justice-oriented version she discovered upon encountering the mysteries of marriage and motherhood—years after her departure from the guilt-stricken, conservative Catholicism of her upbringing.
