Women We Read This Week
Amber Brooks’s “I Believe Love Is Largely An Act of Imagination” in The Establishment In her lyric essay, Amber Brooks sets the stakes: she’s…
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Trauma Is Like a Snakebite
What comes out of my mouth is the cry a dog makes after being hit by a car, a shrill whimper.
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Homage to Nepal
This morning, a 7.3 temblor rattled the already-ravaged nation of Nepal. More buildings have crumbled; more lives have been lost in the rubble and…
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Women We Read This Week
Andrea Barrett’s “Traveling Corpse” in The American Scholar I’ve always loved Andrea Barrett’s historical fiction, and in this essay she narrates the process of…
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On the Far End of Reality: Jennifer Percy’s Demon Camp
Everywhere he went, he saw them, their burned bodies, watching him. These were the days after the war. Demon Camp is not really about…
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Lessons of Grief
The day that it happened, the United States Postal Service unveiled The Simpson’s collectors’ set—a five-stamp commemorative booklet featuring…
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