People
People
| Losing My Religion
The Oil Cross: On Being Raised to Wage Spiritual Warfare
They were fallen angels, Satan’s henchmen, and they were everywhere.
People
| Portrait of the Artist as a New Parent
The Productive Artist-Mother
How becoming a parent helped me set more reasonable creative goals.
People
| Generations
You Will Be With Me in Paradise
“Femur, pelvis, flecks of skull—father’s remains are served in a silver tray.”
People
| Bodies
A Chronology of Touch
“The desire and the wrongness both, inseparable, pulled at me.”
People
| Generations
Messages for a Balloon: On Relocation and Families
We had other places we called home, other cities and countries and people who weren’t present that we loved.
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People
| Mental Health
Take Care: Mothers, Daughters, and Inheriting Self-Hatred
“All my mother had done was try to love me while not loving herself.”
People
| Believers
Cult Confessions: Faith and the Limits of Liberalism
“It never occurred to me to consider Oneida in the same category as an apocalyptic Christian cult.”
People
| Generations
At the Grounds: On Fatherhood and Grief
“My father was still making plans, and little plans were one way he expressed his love of life.”
People
| Generations
When Cancer Runs in Your Family
In my frightened mind, so many people in my family had been reduced to that one word.