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Too Wild to Love

by Carolyn Wells December 23, 2022December 23, 2022

“A multigenerational Texas family leaves the state for a new life on the East Coast.”

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‘The More We Pulled Back the Carpet, the More We Saw’: What I Learned When I Bought a House With a Dark Past

by Carolyn Wells November 24, 2022November 25, 2022

“I knew it wasn’t my dream home. What I didn’t know is that its history would give me nightmares.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Constraints: A Hometown Ode

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 2, 2022November 11, 2022

“When I was in high school, ambition meant two things: escaping my hometown and becoming a writer.”

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To All the Brooklyn Brownstones I’ve Loved Before

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 7, 2022October 19, 2022

In this essay, Beth Boyle Machlan writes about possibility, desire, real estate, finding one’s home, and coveting the Brooklyn brownstone. The piece is part of Machlan’s Catapult column, Unreal Estates, which explores issues of housing in America through a very personal lens. To me, back then, that brownstone stood for everything I wanted: solidity and […]

Passport and travel documents, a watch, an open book, and coins on top of paper maps
Posted inNonfiction

Curator Spotlight: Vesna Jaksic Lowe on What It Means To Straddle Multiple Cultures

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 30, 2021October 21, 2022

The writer of the Immigrant Strong newsletter wants to diversify your bookshelf. 

Posted inCulture, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Reading List

​​’Names Have Power’: A Reading List on Names, Identity, and the Immigrant Experience

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 28, 2021October 19, 2022

Whether adding a hyphen or changing one’s name completely, the process of naming can be complex.

Posted inBooks, Commentary

This Month In Books: ‘What Creates That Need To Leap?’

by Dana Snitzky May 15, 2019October 19, 2022

This month’s books newsletter has one foot out the door.

Posted inNonfiction

Uncertain Ground

by Grace Loh Prasad March 25, 2019November 8, 2022

Grace Loh Prasad realizes that mourning is complicated when home and homeland aren’t the same place.

Posted inReading List

Home Cooking: A Reading List

by Jacqueline Alnes March 4, 2019October 19, 2022

“In the following essays, writers interrogate the complicated pasts of place through food, express nostalgia for long-gone homes, and find belonging by sharing meals.”

Posted inReading List

Home Again, Home Again: A Reading List

by Jacqueline Alnes November 7, 2018October 19, 2022

Eight stories that explore the theme, “home.”

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