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Triggered, Anyone? Writing Memoir in the Age of Epstein
Author and teacher Victoria Costello explores how this cultural moment is changing the way we write memoir and autofiction - maybe for the better
Travel Tips for Canadians Hoping to Avoid Invasion (at Home and Away)
Going on a Caribbean vacation? There's a lot more to worry about than sunburns and pick-pockets. Yes, this is a work of satire.
 • Leah Eichler
Elsewhere
In this work of creative nonfiction, Jeffrey-Michael Kane explores an abandoned apartment and the artifacts we leave behind.
A Love Letter to All Women (and Men)
A cautionary tale about heart disease in women and listening to your gut
 • Rita Jane Gabbett
Boo!
Growing up in an old farmhouse with ghosts. Short nonfiction by Janie Gabbett
How to Triumph with Only One Shoe
I’m a piano geek. Book nerd. Medieval music freak. I never dreamed I’d spend a week in Eugene, Oregon, at the Olympic track and field trials. But here I…
Artificial Intelligence and the world’s “Oppenheimer Moment”
Will AI be a force for good or an existential threat? By Bernd Debusmann
Frieze
What happens when three people touch momentarily on a sidewalk in Florida? They are fused into one being for the briefest of moments. Creative…
 • Bubba Henson
Love is the Secret
A knee replacement surgery sparks a moment of time travel to the source of the pain. A work of creative nonfiction by Steve Bernstein.
The Alchemy of Music: Answers from the Great Beyond
Bruce Farrell Rosen stumbles on his deceased mother's prized music collection, and in the listening, she comes back to him.
 • Leah Eichler
A Different Kind of Homecoming
A journalist returns to Berlin to donate Holocaust related papers.
Father in Exile
Twenty years ago today, Gilbert's wife, pregnant with their second child, took their almost 3-year-old on a roundtrip flight to Buenos Aires. She never…
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