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Mothers and daughters

Lions and Daughters

by Nancy Lemann ,

The underrated art of not getting gored

Going Nowhere, Fast

by Mansi Choksi ,

From The Newlyweds, which will be published next month by Atria Books. For most of my mother’s life, she has lived in the house she was born in. It is…

Good Mother

by Sierra Crane Murdoch ,

Custody and care in the shadow of colonization

“If Only I Could Begin Again!”

by Vivian Gornick ,

The mystery of a writer’s métier

New Things in My Life

by Lydia Davis ,

By Lydia Davis, from a manuscript in progress. Her collection of essays, Essays One, will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in November. It takes me so long to…

What Remains

by Richard Lloyd Parry ,

By Richard Lloyd Parry, from Ghosts of the Tsunami, which was published this month by MCD. Parry is the Asia editor of the Times of London. On the afternoon of…

The March on Everywhere

by Leslie Jamison ,

The ragged glory of female activism

Death Watch

by Sophie Calle ,

By Sophie Calle, a French conceptual artist, from an interview with Eleanor Wachtel for CBC Radio One that was published in the Winter 2016 issue of Brick. Her work Pas…

Escaping Wars and Waves

by Olivier Kugler ,

The Mother of All Questions

by Rebecca Solnit ,

I gave a talk on Virginia Woolf a few years ago. During the question-and-answer period that followed it, the subject that seemed to most interest a number of people was…

The Donor

by Emma Donoghue ,

He’s been a central character in the story for as long as Chris and I have been telling it to the kids. “We had Emma’s egg but we didn’t have…