Five Nonfiction Books for the New American Family
The shape of the American family has taken a drastic shift in this last generation. The reality is that this “family” is made up of a...
The shape of the American family has taken a drastic shift in this last generation. The reality is that this “family” is made up of a...
When I was five and we went back to India for a visit, everyone was upset about two things. The first was that my brother and...
The first time I picked up Gulliver’s Travels, I was working in a protein production lab. I’d just gotten home after a painfully long day, half...
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An Excerpt from ‘Trust Exercise’ by Susan Choi The English People were a performing troupe from a high school in Bournemouth, a city in England. They were...
Jillian captured the complexities of anger and jealousy, disgruntlement and disgust so pristinely, you can’t help but be rapt, laughing along as Butler described social situations...
My novel started with an image that popped into my mind: it was of a black female protagonist who is a typical suburban mother — or so it...
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The poet W. S. Merwin recently died, leaving us with more than 50 books of poetry and prose and a legacy that wove together his interest...