Personal Essay Archives

A Murder in Berlin

Crows become familiars for a writer living on the surface of a changing city.

“A family stays connected on the road.”

Chatrooms taught me everything I needed to know about what real people were like before I had to grow up and become one of them.

During times of isolation and dramatic change, our stories from around the world are an essential global historical record.

You made a fool of the words “feminine” and “masculine” — you were neither, you were both.

The road map to becoming enough.

A reading list of essays we loved from Catapult magazine.

“Angelina Mazza spends a lot of time looking at her body. And yet, she explains, she’s never truly seen it.”

“We were born a week apart, in the same hospital, to different mothers.”

“Generations of family memories wash away in Silver Falls.”