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London A – Z: A Memoir
The “A – Z” is a pocket-sized street atlas of the city of London. Continue Reading London A – Z: A Memoir
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Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Mine
I just saw your beautiful fox: my neighbor texts me on her early morning walk past my house. I’ve seen the fox many times, ... -
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Year Three
“We’ll just move far away from everyone, Mark declares, too far for people to visit.” Today’s EssaySaturday USA is “Year Three” by Edie Meade. ... -
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#EssaySaturday USA 25 March: Sealight
“This place has fast become our sanctuary…” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “Sealight” by Chris Ray. Continue Reading #EssaySaturday USA 25 March: Sealight
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On Not Knowing
“I moved here to embrace the not knowing. It doesn’t come easily.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “On Not Knowing” by Katherine Plumhoff. Continue ... -
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Wherever You Go, There You Are
“Just like that, my world unravelled in seconds.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “Wherever You Go, There You Are” by Teresa Shimogawa. Continue Reading ... -
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Nowhere Lake
“At Nowhere Lake, all was abandoned as if in midsentence.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “Nowhere Lake” by Anita Kestin. Continue Reading Nowhere Lake ... -
Is anybody “active now”? Longing in the Era of Instant Messages
They are all ‘green’, colleagues and customers, they are ‘active now’ The same with my students yesterday, I sent the fourth reminder. Continue ... -
Is Rome Burning?
Historians say Nero did not set a fire; whether he was fiddling or not I do not know. It seems to me sometimes that America ... -
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The Carlton Arms
“It was a nightmare,” he recalls. “There were hookers turning tricks in the bathroom and junkies shooting up in the halls. If you were predisposed ... -
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On Being A Mother: 20 Observations
Motherhood began when the world began. Continue Reading On Being A Mother: 20 Observations
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Laughing at the Forbidden: A Review of Percival Everett’s “The Trees”
No author has been more overlooked than Percival Everett. Continue Reading Laughing at the Forbidden: A Review of Percival Everett’s “The Trees”
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Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Abortion Access Was Never Equal. Here’s How I Know
For young women today everything, and nothing, has changed. Continue Reading Abortion Access Was Never Equal. Here’s How I Know
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Roto-Shine
Instantly I fast-forward to a familiar concern: what will befall his old Roto-Shine Electric Shoe Polisher when I am gone? Continue Reading Roto-Shine ... -
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The Fading World
He has no recollection of Abba jee, my grandfather; he met him only once when he was barely three. But he has inherited the fear ... -
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Out
All day you are outside, walking, alone. The businesses, save for a few, are dark and shuttered, the streets empty. Continue Reading Out ... -
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Voice Lessons
My goal is to reclaim what was lost. Continue Reading Voice Lessons
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On a Clear Night in California
Above all, my father was benevolent; a man of the people, and of all living creatures. Continue Reading On a Clear Night in ... -
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Summer of Acceptance
I was sixteen and mesmerized by the graffiti – framed by tunnels, bridges, and walls of industrial buildings. It seemed the only view on an ... -
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Nostalgia, circa 1960’s
The Wikipedia tour guide spiel It would be my time at the Beauty Pageant metropolis that summer. We start at the majestic Marlborough Blenheim Hotel ...