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The Many Faces of Sylvia Plath

The Many Faces of Sylvia Plath

In Focusing Too Much on Her Death, We Miss Her Capacity for Life

By Kelly Marie Coyne | October 27, 2017

A Stroke Made My Mother a Poet, I Merely Transcribed

A Stroke Made My Mother a Poet, I Merely Transcribed

Freeman's Marius Chivu on the Origins of His First Poem">For Freeman's Marius Chivu on the Origins of His First Poem

By Marius Chivu | October 19, 2017

"I Didn't Want to Write Another Dead-Mother Memoir"

Sarah Perry in Conversation with Melody Nixon

By Melody Nixon | September 28, 2017

Searching for My Mother, 16 Years After Her Murder

Searching for My Mother, 16 Years After Her Murder

Sarah Perry Travels Back to the Scenes of a Crime

By Sarah Perry | September 25, 2017

To Speak is to Be Misunderstood: On Parenting and Parents

To Speak is to Be Misunderstood: On Parenting and Parents

Minna Zallman Proctor Investigates the Pleasure of Not Belonging

By Minna Zallman Proctor | September 21, 2017

Claire Messud: What I Learned From My Mother's Library

Claire Messud: What I Learned From My Mother's Library

The Burning Girl on the Women Writers She Grew Up With">The Author of The Burning Girl on the Women Writers She Grew Up With

By Claire Messud | August 24, 2017

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On Living, and Thinking, in Two Languages at Once

By Camille Bordas | August 11, 2017

Do I Have the Right to Inhabit Another's Mental Illness in Fiction?

By Sarah Faber | August 7, 2017

Mothers Who Leave Their Children

By Melissa Chadburn | July 24, 2017

The Freedom to Defy Expectations: An Interview with Zinzi Clemmons

The Freedom to Defy Expectations: An Interview with Zinzi Clemmons

What We Lose Author on Mothers, Death, and Form">The What We Lose Author on Mothers, Death, and Form

By Alexandra Watson | June 14, 2017

Ballast, Grounding, Subject Matter: On Writers and Their Mothers

Ballast, Grounding, Subject Matter: On Writers and Their Mothers

The Ambiguities and Uncertainties of Love Make us Who We Are

By Mary Morris | May 12, 2017

On Oaxaca, Early Pregnancy, and Motherlands

On Oaxaca, Early Pregnancy, and Motherlands

"Place lurks in us like a gene waiting to be expressed"

By Sarah Menkedick | May 12, 2017

My Mysterious Mother: Beauty Queen, Rebel Leader, National Icon

My Mysterious Mother: Beauty Queen, Rebel Leader, National Icon

Charmaine Craig on the Amazing Life and Times of Louisa Benson Craig

By Charmaine Craig | May 2, 2017

Dreams of My Mother, for One Last Passover

Dreams of My Mother, for One Last Passover

Pearl Abraham Navigates the Space Between Hijab and Hasidim

By Pearl Abraham | April 13, 2017

How Postcards From My Mother Helped Me Survive Childhood

How Postcards From My Mother Helped Me Survive Childhood

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan on the Power of Small Rectangles

By Rowan Hisayo Buchanan | March 3, 2017

Phillip Lopate Revisits a 30-Year-Old Conversation with his Mother

Phillip Lopate Revisits a 30-Year-Old Conversation with his Mother

A Mother's Tale">Kristen Martin speaks with the teacher, essayist, and author of A Mother's Tale

By Kristen Martin | January 17, 2017

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