Essays & Memoir

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  14 March 2012

  Dad’s the Word

  The pleasures and perils of fatherhood.

  • Soumya Bhattacharya
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  09 March 2012

  Self-Consciousness: Memoirs by John Updike

  The many masks of John Updike.

  • Edmund White
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  28 February 2012

  Brodsky’s Room and a Half

  Searching Venice for a poet’s ghost.

  • Valeria Luiselli
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  23 February 2012

  A Trip to Syria

  Walking in a country on the brink.

  • David McConnell
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  14 February 2012

  That Father Lost

  Numbering grief.

  • Dave Lucas
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  30 January 2012

  The Madonna of the Sea

  The Italian odyssey of an Ethiopian refugee.

  • Maaza Mengiste
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  30 January 2012

  Summer

  A snapshot of Exit Strategies.

  • Jacob Newberry
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  26 January 2012

  Detroit, 1966

  A summer spent longing for escape.

  • Lynda Schuster
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  23 January 2012

  Holy Solitude

  The importance of reading in China.

  • Kong Yalei
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  06 January 2012

  The Case of Stephen Lawrence

  Orwell prize winning archive essay.

  • Brian Cathcart