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Posted inNonfiction

(Who Gets to) Just Up and Move

by Nicole Walker January 3, 2020December 30, 2022

Nicole Walker contemplates the nature of migration, and realizes there are two places you can never escape: the planet and your own head.

Posted inFeature, Featured, Reading List

Location, Location, Location: Six Stories on Moving House

by Jacqueline Alnes October 21, 2019October 19, 2022

Jacqueline Alnes explores identity and privilege in these six stories about moving house.

Posted inEditor's Pick

When to Throw a Goodbye Party

by Sari Botton July 19, 2019October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which Joy Notoma grapples with: saying goodbye to friends before a move, the complicated grief of shunning, and the way one parting can be a painful reminder of so many others.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

When to Throw a Goodbye Party

by Joy Notoma July 19, 2019October 19, 2022

Joy Notoma grapples with saying goodbye to friends before a move, the complicated grief of shunning, and the way one parting can be a painful reminder of so many others.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction

When to Throw a Goodbye Party

by Joy Notoma July 19, 2019October 19, 2022

Joy Notoma grapples with saying goodbye to friends before a move, the complicated grief of shunning, and the way one parting can be a painful reminder of so many others.

Illustrator Kate Gavino walks a group of dogs in Paris and speaks in French when giving commands.
Posted inNonfiction, Story

Unleashed in Paris

by Kate Gavino April 3, 2019October 19, 2022

As a semi-professional dog walker in Paris, expat Kate Gavino has found a comfortable way to learn French.

Illustrator Kate Gavino walks a group of dogs in Paris and speaks in French when giving commands.
Posted inNonfiction

Unleashed in Paris

by Kate Gavino April 3, 2019October 19, 2022

As a semi-professional dog walker in Paris, expat Kate Gavino has found a comfortable way to learn French.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

At Risk, at Home and Abroad

by Joy Notoma January 14, 2019October 19, 2022

As Joy Notoma grapples with uterine fibroids, harmful biases in the medical establishment, and a move from Brooklyn to West Africa she wonders where, as a black woman, she can find safety.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction

At Risk, at Home and Abroad

by Joy Notoma January 14, 2019October 19, 2022

As Joy Notoma grapples with uterine fibroids, harmful biases in the medical establishment, and a move from Brooklyn to West Africa she wonders where, as a black woman, she can find safety.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story

A High-End Mover Dishes on Truckstop Hierarchy, Rich People, and Moby Dick

by Longreads September 21, 2017October 19, 2022

On the beauty and burdens of the long haul.

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