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The Secret of Who She Was

by Geoff Dyer,

How my mother learned to be invisible

Ithaca

by Will Self,

Rewriting my mother's diaries

The Egg

by Sanaë Lemoine,

We Were the News Today

by Maram Humaid,

From journal entries by Maram Humaid, an AlJazeera.com journalist in Gaza, written during the first week of the Israel–Hamas war. OCTOBER 9 I’m the mother of two children, one of…

Writing Wrongs

by Rachel Zucker,

From excerpts of a lecture collected in The Poetics of Wrongness, which was published last month by Wave Books. In late January 2013, I told my mother I was going…

A Perfect Woman

by Dorothy Dunbar Bromley,

It would be a bold writer who would attempt to have the last word on the much-debated maternal instinct. But since so many men have had their say on the…

Mother Knows Best

From a lawsuit filed by Devin Nunes, a U.S. representative from California, against the Twitter user Devin Nunes’ Mom, whose identity is unknown. Nunes has denied the claims made by…

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…

Keeping Time

by Sarah Manguso,

By Sarah Manguso, from Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, out in March from Graywolf Press. Manguso is the author of several books, including The Guardians and The Two Kinds…

By Night In Chile

by Lola Arias,

By Lola Arias, from her play The Year I Was Born, recently produced at the Under the Radar Festival, in New York. During the performance, eleven Chilean actors presented autobiographical…

Mother knows best

by Helen Harcombe,