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Grave Years and the Undead Woman: On the Chilling Erasure of Mothers’ Needs

Originally published in Griffith Review edition 89, August 2025Article continues after advertisement * I have never read anything written by Pearl S. Buck. But a few...

What Animal Parents Teach Humans About Care

In the spring of 2007, scientists who were using a robotic submarine to explore the deep sea off the California coast spotted a lone...

Carol Rumens, poet and the Guardian’s poem of the week columnist, dies aged 81

British poet Carol Rumens, whose Guardian poem of the week column ran for nearly 20 years and was beloved among its loyal readership, has...

Is Peter Thiel a “bad fan” of LOTR?

Who is Peter Thiel, really? Maverick, or monster? Little is known about the eccentric billionaire manipulating our world from assorted bunkers, but what we...

How Being a Mediocre Scientist Helped Me Become a Better Novelist

For a long time I was a good student, until I was very suddenly not.Article continues after advertisement It took considerable evidence, after so many...

Elizabeth Strout on Creating a Quietly Strong Protagonist

After creating literary immortals like Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, and Bob Burgess, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout is back with her eleventh book, which...

Who Are the Best Monsters in Literature?

Mothman Is My Boyfriend Author McKayla Coyle has Some Ideas I’m kind of obsessed with monsters. Not monster as in “terrible person” but monster as...

Deafness Should Be Allowed to Be Unremarkable

Accent is dependent upon a variety of factors influencing the speaker’s will and ability to modulate it, including whether the speaker is trying to...