This Week in Essays
“The pitiless beauty of the operation is that it’s all the same nerve endings, reclaimed like lumber from an old boat.” Andrea Long Chu gets bottom surgery and thinks about transformation, feminism,...
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In Kate Branca’s new essay for Longreads, religion and dance meld into spiritual euphoria. “Pregnancy is a house and my daughter died in this house.” Sarah Boyer explores the way we think about places...
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For Hazlitt, Kristen Arnett has an unsanctioned experience in a dark room at Epcot. Evelyn Martinez writes for Entropy on finding a calm, savory space making nacatamales during an uprooted San...
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At Entropy, Constance Ann Fitzgerald deals with a mother who lies and brutalizes. “For many children, you can draw a straight line between the trauma they experienced and the crime that put them behind...
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At New Orleans Review, Lisa Nikolidakis writes on drowning and looking for a lifeline. “Until my mother got sick, I never really wanted to see the fullness of who she was.” For Entropy, Sonya Lea...
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For Naihobe Gonzalez, writing at The Offing, continual blackouts lead to a tenuous living situation. At Entropy, Claire Sicherman and Marissa Korbel explore the tribulations of adolescence. “Instead,...
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Our next Letter in the Mail comes from author, editor, and publisher Janice Lee! Janice sends us a contemplative letter about birds, inherited trauma, and ways to find hope amid violence and pain. To...
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“I place my palm on a wall that human touch has polished to a sheen: I am touching eight centuries of despair and bewilderment and hope.” At Granta, Anna Badkhen travels to the cradle of human...
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“Here is the thing about getting older, about being halfway through a life span: half of me belongs to things that no longer exist.” At the Paris Review, Nancy Wayson Dinan grapples with how proximity...
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At Hazlitt, Meg Bernhard looks for answers after a college friend drowns. For [PANK], Gabriella Navas writes about the struggle to let her mother’s love be enough following a suicide attempt. “This was...
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For The Atlantic, Ed Yong outlines each and every way the US has deeply messed up its COVID-19 response. At the Paris Review, Destiny O. Birdsong unravels the complicated feelings behind a violent...
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“The acoustics of silence over the slaughter of Palestinians relies on the melody of dehumanisation.” At Meanjin, Randa Abdel-Fattah embarks on an oral history project and comes up against hard truths...
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Rachel Kushner reflects on a 2016 trip to Palestine for n+1. P.L. Watts writes on the foster care system, problematic family, and ghosts at The Smart Set. August Lamm fights for a life and a livelihood...
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Melissa Hart writes on chickens, mothers, and homophobia for DAME magazine. At Guernica, Sisonke Msimang writes about the travel-restricted pandemic, fleeing apartheid, Palestine, and the ways we...
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At Places Journal, Andrew Wingfield and Michael P. Gilmore go deep into the Amazon to see how the Maijuna are trying to save their land from development. For Entropy, Rebecca Delacruz-Gunderson...
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For The Atlantic, Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez writes on Cuba and a new generation striving for political change. Chris Dennis contemplates the carceral state, mechanisms of power and control, and Ghislaine...
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A Space to Include the Excess: Talking with Janice Lee
Janice Lee’s Imagine a Death is a wonder of a novel, investigating layers of consciousness by following the journey of three human characters as they explore memory, ghosts, intimacy, and trauma in the...
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At Scalawag, Ko Bragg and Virginia Walcott write on how busy work inboxes are that much more annoying amid the ongoing climate crisis. For Entropy, Alexandra Middleton writes on being witness to a...
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Sunny Pak writes on caregiving, grief, and the things taken by dementia and Covid for Entropy. At Granta, Bathsheba Demuth digs up whale houses, histories, and migrations. Emily Nelson writes on who...
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Melissa Bowers recounts a marriage that almost was and the pain that comes with it at New Ohio Review. Over at Places Journal, Rashad Shabazz gives a look at the musical history of a Minneapolis that...
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