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Finding My Literary Style (with a Little Help From My Mother)

Finding My Literary Style (with a Little Help From My Mother)

Kelly Sather on the Stories Clothes Can Tell

By Kelly Sather | October 28, 2024

Imagining Home: On Family, Place and Inheritance in South Asia and North America

Imagining Home: On Family, Place and Inheritance in South Asia and North America

Sadiya Ansari Considers the Impact and Legacy of Displacement After Partition

By Sadiya Ansari | August 14, 2024

Imaginary Homelands: Lauren Markham Returns to Ancestral Landscapes for the Very First Time

Imaginary Homelands: Lauren Markham Returns to Ancestral Landscapes for the Very First Time

“My ancestors had left Greece; now, a hundred years later, millions were desperate to get here.”

By Lauren Markham | February 13, 2024

Julie Otsuka on Writing From and Into Memories

Julie Otsuka on Writing From and Into Memories

"These boxes were my inheritance, the stuff out of which my novels are made."

By Julie Otsuka | August 8, 2023

How a White Racist “Totalitarian” System Permeates American History and Why Reparations Might Be the Only Fix

How a White Racist “Totalitarian” System Permeates American History and Why Reparations Might Be the Only Fix

Baynard Woods in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 30, 2022

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Inheritance by Elizabeth Acevedo, Read by the Author">Inheritance by Elizabeth Acevedo, Read by the Author

Powerful Poetry from a Spoken-Word Poet

By Behind the Mic | May 24, 2022

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On the Unbearable Whiteness of Mainstream, Canonical Southern Literature 

By Anjali Enjeti | June 28, 2021

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Mimi Lok on Writing in (and For) the Margins

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Dani Shapiro on the Disequilibrium of a Life-Changing Moment

Dani Shapiro on the Disequilibrium of a Life-Changing Moment

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By But That's Another Story | July 30, 2019

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By Emily Temple | July 3, 2019

Dani Shapiro on Unraveling Her Family's History

Dani Shapiro on Unraveling Her Family's History

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By Michele Filgate | May 16, 2019

Dani Shapiro: Did My Parents Even Know?

Dani Shapiro: Did My Parents Even Know?

On Unraveling the Mystery of My Conception

By Dani Shapiro | January 23, 2019

13 Books You Should Read This January

13 Books You Should Read This January

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Transcendent Compositions: On Making Perfume and Writing Fiction

Transcendent Compositions: On Making Perfume and Writing Fiction

"They Are Ways to Escape Material Borders—And My Body"

By TANAÏS | May 11, 2018

Why I Don't Write About the Women in My Family

Why I Don't Write About the Women in My Family

"Their Peruvian Lives Ooze a Vague Vargas Llosa Air"

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