“Far from our barrios, mountains, and islands, we cook, so that we may practice swallowing our undesirable truths, acidic and blood-heavy.”
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‘Writing This Book Was a Weird Séance ’: An Interview With Deborah Levy
“If you have the depth, the surface can be as light as it’s possible to make it…I don’t mind that ‘Swimming Home’ is sometimes described as a ‘beach read’ — actually that’s a triumph.”
Hello, Forgetfulness; Hello, Mother
Peering into the mirror of her mother, Marcia Aldrich wonders whether she too is sentenced to dementia.
Take Script, Add Snow
The psychology behind America’s obsession with Hallmark Christmas movies.
Seventeen
Steve Edwards revisits an early heartbreak to ask: “How do we find compassion for who we used to be?”
Who Really Gets to Make the Rules?
“But who gets to impose those rules and who becomes subject to them can be decisions tainted with sexism and racism and transphobia and homophobia. “
Making Peace with the Site of a Suicide
One woman reconciles with her father’s death on her family’s property.
Forgetting the Madeleine
A pastry chef reflects on taste, memory, and literature’s most famous confection.
Forgetting the Madeleine
A pastry chef reflects on taste, memory, and literature’s most famous confection.
Forgetting the Madeleine
A pastry chef reflects on taste, memory, and literature’s most famous confection.