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Expat in Paris
I begin with a story of how I came to discover the work of James Baldwin; I begin with the novel Giovanni’s Room.
Running Lessons
“The mind, unlike a library, is more like a web.” Learn from Kristi Ferguson in today’s #EssaySaturday, “Running Lessons.”
Ab Aqua Libertas
How could I then put into words my feelings about my favorite one of them all, the Danube?
GOD: THE INTERVIEW
Can you remember the first time you began to fashion things of your own, whether objects, characters, or anything else?
After a Hurricane
It’s 1992 and Mr. White Boots enters the house with a guttural meow and a mouse in his mouth. I scream like a banshee, thinking he’ll drop it at my ...
The Character Lessons
My father wanted to build my character so that nothing could destroy me, not even him. He wanted me to be strong and resilient, confident and self-assured, capable of overcoming ...
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Mean Streak
In those days we sat at individual wooden desks, the surfaces often scarred with carved initials, ink stains, and gouges from pencils. I had been warned about the algebra teacher, ...
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This Other Dresden
I never expected Dresden to be surreal. This was Germany – the trains would run on time, the architecture would be cold, people would be stern and predictable and there ...
Dr. Putin’s Diet Revolution
As the Ukrainian war crosses into the border into Russia, our Saturday Essay serves a tapestry weaving current events, the visceral sting of history, and the domesticity of personal lives, ...
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Spastic-Dog Woman
“My best shot of meeting anyone may be dog walking.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “Spastic-Dog Woman” by Lisa K. Harris.
This One’s for Linda
The world had different rules for women in 1972 than today.
Three Bodies on a Beach
Three of them lying on a beach, the nearest one half engulfed in sand, the bow of a sunken troop carrier jutting out of the water nearby.
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Home is Where I’ve Arrived Too Late
“To feel like I belong, like I’ve put time into one place and stayed long enough to put roots down.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “Home is Where I’ve Arrived Too ...
London A – Z: A Memoir
The “A – Z” is a pocket-sized street atlas of the city of London.
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Mine
Picture credit: Erin Wallace
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, usually over the ...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.