A bibliophile tries to understand her father through his favorite Swedish mystery books.
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Old In Art School
At 64, Nell Painter left a secure teaching position and went back to school to study art.
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Trying to Kill the Want
I was a grown, multi-degreed, loved, moneyed, professionally powerful woman who did not have the strength to wait one-third of an hour before having a drink.
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Five Early Lessons in Parenting
Steven Church discovers his own fragility and limitations in these five discussions with his son.
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Walking Through the Past Into New Motherhood
A new mother struggles to make sense of intergenerational trauma, biological memory and the guilty privilege of passing as white even though she is Jewish.
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As Innocuous as Plant No. 1
William Vollman enters the radioactive red zone to visit the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
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A Certain Kind of Mammal
Meaghan O’Connell on the joy, the triumph, and the prison of breastfeeding.
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Vanishing As a Way to Reclaim Your Life
On the eve of her marriage, an adventurous young woman tests how free she really wants to be.
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The Thing about Women from the River Is That Our Currents Are Endless
Given a journal while hospitalized, Terese Marie Mailhot writes her way through generations of trauma.
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The Ghosts of the Tsunami
The 2011 earthquake and tsunami killed thousands in Japan. Those left behind were haunted by the dead, and some were possessed by them.