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Yiming Ma on the Benefits of Writing Blind

Yiming Ma on the Benefits of Writing Blind

On Making the Invisible Visible

By Yiming Ma | August 22, 2025

An Invisibility Cloak of the Self: Jane Tara on Being Told She Was Going Blind in Her Forties

An Invisibility Cloak of the Self: Jane Tara on Being Told She Was Going Blind in Her Forties

The Author of “Tilda Is Visible” Reflects on the World Before and After a Startling Vision Misdiagnosis

By Jane Tara | February 26, 2025

Brief Essays on Altered Sight: On Braille, Loss, and Blindness' Many Forms

Brief Essays on Altered Sight: On Braille, Loss, and Blindness' Many Forms

Three Meditations on Vision From Naomi Cohn

By Naomi Cohn | October 23, 2024

How Alien We Seem: On Being Blind and Obsessed with Photography

How Alien We Seem: On Being Blind and Obsessed with Photography

M. Leona Godin Considers, Among Other Things, the Enduring Trope of the Blind Pencil Vendor

By M. Leona Godin | January 4, 2024

Borges Dealt With His Anxiety About Going Blind by Learning a New Language

Borges Dealt With His Anxiety About Going Blind by Learning a New Language

Andrew Leland on His Own Weakening Vision, Braille, and Making a Commitment to Read with Visual Aids

By Andrew Leland | July 18, 2023

What is it Like to Be a Blind Writer Writing for Sighted Readers?

What is it Like to Be a Blind Writer Writing for Sighted Readers?

George Mendoza and Kristen Witucki Talk Craft, Community, and Ableism in the Publishing Industry

By Jessica Powers | April 28, 2022

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My Life Story, Someone Else’s Voice: Why I Won’t Be Narrating My Memoir’s Audiobook

By James Tate Hill | August 3, 2021

On the Cultural Figure—and Lived Reality—of the Blind Writer

By M. Leona Godin | June 7, 2021

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Blindness is unlike any literary adaptation you've ever seen.">This new production of Blindness is unlike any literary adaptation you've ever seen.

By Emily Temple | May 28, 2021

Take a tour of José Saramago's gorgeous Canary Island home.

Take a tour of José Saramago's gorgeous Canary Island home.

By Emily Temple | November 16, 2020

What China's Literary Community is Reading During the Coronavirus Pandemic

What China's Literary Community is Reading During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Lu Xun, Michael Ondaatje, and More

By Na Zhong | March 17, 2020

Sales of plague-themed literature on the rise in Italy. Is America next?

Sales of plague-themed literature on the rise in Italy. Is America next?

By Jonny Diamond | March 4, 2020

Here's what the first audio comic for blind readers sounds like.

Here's what the first audio comic for blind readers sounds like.

By Corinne Segal | September 18, 2019

The Self-Portrait Jorge Luis Borges Drew After Going Blind

The Self-Portrait Jorge Luis Borges Drew After Going Blind

For One Thing, You've Probably Been Looking at it Upside Down

By Emily Temple | August 24, 2018

How Prince Helped Me Feel Seen

How Prince Helped Me Feel Seen

James Tate Hill on the Multifarious Legacy of the Artist Formerly Known As

By James Tate Hill | June 7, 2018