Places
Places
| At Work
When Your Body Is the Lesson: On Art Modeling
In practice, this gig is easier than expected. It’s my mind that throws me off.
Places
| Retreat
Walking Around Guernsey with My Mother: A Chronicle of Anxiety
“The problem with writing about my anxiety is that I want it to be a closed narrative.”
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Places
| Where Are You From
How I Lost My Hometown
The day after the election, the last threads of attachment I felt to home frayed and finally broke.
Places
| At Work
The Surgical Resident Life
“Alternating ecstasy and despair characterize resident life in particular, and medical practice in general.”
Places
| Retreat
Contemplating Death at the Edge of the Continent
I do not feel that I choose the fear so much as it chooses me.
Places
| Migrations
A Map of Lost Things: On Family, Grief, and the Meaning of Home
“A body always returns to the place that shaped it.”
Places
| At Work
One Life, Going Forward: Why I Quit Teaching in 2016
“Like most people in education, I wanted to make a difference.”
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| From the Archives of
D Is for the Dance of the Hours: A Portrait of Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit
My cousin’s stories of being a Detroit cop could have come straight out of an opera.