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On Reckoning with Her Mother’s Silent Treatment

On Reckoning with Her Mother’s Silent Treatment

Jeannie Vanasco Considers the Punishment of Silence

By Jeannie Vanasco | September 8, 2025

Words as Borders, Weapons, Traps: Sarah Aziza on Being a Palestinian Writer Today

Words as Borders, Weapons, Traps: Sarah Aziza on Being a Palestinian Writer Today

The Author of “The Hollow Half” Explores Language, Silence, and Being

By Sarah Aziza | April 22, 2025

Pico Iyer on What We Can Learn From the Monastic Life

Pico Iyer on What We Can Learn From the Monastic Life

In Praise of Solitude, Contemplation and Connection

By Pico Iyer | January 21, 2025

Saying the Unsayable, and Listening to Silence: Jon Fosse on How Writing Plays Transformed His Craft

Saying the Unsayable, and Listening to Silence: Jon Fosse on How Writing Plays Transformed His Craft

From the Author’s Nobel Lecture in “A Silent Language”

By Jon Fosse | May 13, 2024

Modern Tourism Makes It Difficult to Truly Appreciate the Sistine Chapel

Modern Tourism Makes It Difficult to Truly Appreciate the Sistine Chapel

Jeannie Marshall on Why We Need to Slow Down and Sit in Silence to Take in Works of Art

By Jeannie Marshall | July 19, 2023

Carl Phillips on the Value of Silence for Writers

Carl Phillips on the Value of Silence for Writers

“Sometimes the problem is that we’re trying too hard.”

By Carl Phillips | October 28, 2022

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The Art of Silence: Finding Beauty in the Unspoken After Losing My Voice to ALS

By Cai Emmons | September 7, 2022

Five Medieval Tales That Should Immediately Be Made Into Movies

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“You Only Write if You Have To.“ On W.G. Sebald’s Life and Work

By Carole Angier | October 14, 2021

Private Practice: Toward a Philosophy of Just Sitting

Private Practice: Toward a Philosophy of Just Sitting

In Which Antonia Pont is Definitely Not Talking About Meditation

By Antonia Pont | May 13, 2021

Sanctuaries of Silence: An Immersive Listening Journey into the Hoh Rainforest

Sanctuaries of Silence: An Immersive Listening Journey into the Hoh Rainforest

Emergence Magazine Podcast">This Week on the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | April 26, 2021

Today's America?">White Noise, White Silence: Who Gets to Be Loud in<br Today's America?">

Today's America?">White Noise, White Silence: Who Gets to Be Loud in
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Kelly Coyne on “the Sonic Color Line”

By Kelly Marie Coyne | December 17, 2020

Letting Birdsong Fill This New Pandemic Silence

Letting Birdsong Fill This New Pandemic Silence

Shobha Rao on the Quiet Spaces of Our New Reality

By Shobha Rao | April 6, 2020

of Silence">Abbie Greaves on the Merits<br of Silence">

of Silence">Abbie Greaves on the Merits
of Silence

Could You Please Be Quiet?

By Abbie Greaves | March 25, 2020

Unsubstantiated: An Essay of Sexual Violence

Unsubstantiated: An Essay of Sexual Violence

Susan Straight on What It Really Means to Believe Women

By Susan Straight | October 24, 2019

Stand With Us at the 2019 Border of Lights Virtual Vigil

Stand With Us at the 2019 Border of Lights Virtual Vigil

Julia Alvarez Commemorates the Victims of the 1937 Haitian-Dominican Republic Massacre

By Julia Alvarez | October 4, 2019

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