One elderly man’s attempt to combat crushing loneliness.
adoption
Posted inEditor's Pick
How to Write a Memoir While Grieving
A personal essay in which Nicole Chung contemplates loss, adoption, and working on a book her late father won’t get to see.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
How to Write a Memoir While Grieving
Nicole Chung contemplates loss, adoption, and working on a book her late father won’t get to see.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
How to Write a Memoir While Grieving
Nicole Chung contemplates loss, adoption, and working on a book her late father won’t get to see.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
Parsing Her Identity With A Long-Lost Folder, Plus the Internet
A.M. Homes wrestles with her ambivalence toward learning more about her birth parents and the circumstances of her adoption.
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The File: Lost Then Found
A personal essay in which A.M. Homes — who ten years ago published The Mistress’s Daughter, a memoir about meeting her birth parents — reports on the experience of recently being given her long lost adoption file, and the effects of the information on her understanding of her origins.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
On American Identity, the Election, and Family Members Who Support Trump
Nicole Chung reflects on the burden of engaging with racism and educating white people, including some in her own family.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Pregnant, then Ruptured
After an emergency operation, Joanna Petrone considers the medical advances and legal protections that allow women to survive ectopic pregnancies.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
Pregnant, then Ruptured
After an emergency operation, Joanna Petrone considers the medical advances and legal protections that allow women to survive ectopic pregnancies.
Posted inNonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
The Taste of Emotion: A Conversation with Dominique Crenn
The poetry of cooking, the power of memory, and rejecting limits for women in the male-dominated culinary industry.