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Dismantling the Patriarchy by Reclaiming Her Voice
Elissa Bassist reflects on how women’s voices get silenced & reborn, the eleven years it took to write her memoir, and how she wrote like a mother#^@%*&Issue 78
Tiny Truths 78
Micro-essays about interior monologues, conversations overheard, and the voices of those no longer with usIssue 78
50 Years of Making Nonfiction Creative
How all the different flavors of nonfiction transformed into a literary artIssue 77
Punching Up
Funny women are bringing serious subjects to the stage and revolutionizing comedy—and creative nonfiction—in the processIssue 77
Bad News 101
Empathy training helps medical students sit with uncertaintyIssue 77
Shrapnel
Writing can be a way of processing traumatic events, but it can also cause its own kind of distress. The coeditor of a book about school shootings considers the cost of "holding the pain."Issue 77
Renovations
The necessary folly of rebuilding a home in a world on fireIssue 77
Do I Die Today?
A pilot remembers the fear of wartime flights over the Ho Chi Minh trailIssue 77
Misery & Company
Celebrity funerals, social media condolences, roadside memorials, and more: tracing the history of how we experience loss—and how we share it.Issue 77
Behold Invisibility
The explosive force beneath New York City's steam cloudsIssue 77