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Hypergraphia: Am I a Genius or Mentally Ill?

  By Elizabeth Bachner I have lines and fragments of Wislawa Szymborska poems running through my head—poems I don’t have memorized. Poems I’ve only read...
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Caroline Macaulay: Handing Back the Shame

IT IS AS NORMAL AN AFTERNOON AS ANY OTHER. I am trying to find the right words to write my story before my eldest...
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Kim Cooper Findling: Baking Cupcakes for the Dead

Fifteen years ago, my first baby was born prematurely and died at the hospital. Every year, a tidal wave of grief washes over me...
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Elizabeth Bachner: Reading Pussy Riot as a Mom—And Other Winter Bedtime Stories

And who/today/will say/what? —Antonin Artaud In the months before and the years after becoming a mother, I started looking at every story through a...
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Nicole Phoenix: The Page and the Emperor

Driving past the old dive bar, I remember the cigarette smoke, warm wine and the pretentious open mic where you emceed since before I...
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Chloe Yelena Miller: Just Friends

She’s married. Am I misreading it? I decide to be direct, “To be friends and hang out or do a playdate with the kids?”...
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Caroline Horwitz: Let Down

Now that I’ve fed someone from them, sustained his entire life on their contents, it’s strange to reach back into the stores of memory to...
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Cunt: A Declaration of Independence Turns 20

Inga Muscio Chats with Missy Ladygo About the Re-Issue of Cunt, the Cult Classic That’s All New Again   By Missy Ladygo Inga Muscio...
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Nina Packebush: The Orphan Hunters

How Many of the Children Taken at the U.S.-Mexico Border are Bound for the Evangelicals’ Army? And How Are We complicit?   We’ve all...
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Elizabeth Bachner: Husbands and Other Phantoms

In the town where I’ve moved in New Jersey, even though it’s 2018 and not 1952, and even though I know plenty of other...
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