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Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Explore the poignant reflections of Harvey J. Lieberman in “An American Consumer Remembers,” where everyday objects become repositories of memory and emotion.
Editor's Pick, Litro #184: Memory, Print Issues
Litro’s Summer Issue ruminates on memory: of past relationships, childhoods, and the C-who-shall-not-be-named pandemic of 2020 to 2022.
Can you remember the first time you began to fashion things of your own, whether objects, characters, or anything else?
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
“My best shot of meeting anyone may be dog walking.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “Spastic-Dog Woman” by Lisa K. Harris.
The world had different rules for women in 1972 than today.
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, EssaySaturday
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
“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.
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
“This place has fast become our sanctuary…” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “Sealight” by Chris Ray.
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
“I moved here to embrace the not knowing. It doesn’t come easily.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “On Not Knowing” by Katherine Plumhoff.
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
“Just like that, my world unravelled in seconds.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “Wherever You Go, There You Are” by Teresa Shimogawa.
They are all ‘green’, colleagues and customers, they are ‘active now’ The same with my students yesterday, I sent the fourth reminder.
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
For young women today everything, and nothing, has changed.
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Instantly I fast-forward to a familiar concern: what will befall his
old Roto-Shine Electric Shoe Polisher when I am gone?
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
All day you are outside, walking, alone. The businesses, save for a few, are dark and shuttered, the streets empty.
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
My goal is to reclaim what was lost.
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Above all, my father was benevolent; a man of the people, and of all living creatures.