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A Bind
If you travel with a fear of flying, mental health experts recommend that you hold fast to the facts. Remind yourself of statistics that show that the most dangerous part of your travel day is the car ride to or from the airport.
Smell Map of Kyoto in October
Smell Map of Kyoto in October Winner of the 2025 Multimedia Essay ContestHaving trouble viewing this essay? Click here to open in new window.
Microcharacterization in Nonfiction
I’m not sure when microcharacterization becomes fully fledged characterization, and I’ve been debating whether it’s a matter of scale, if it looks different in flash than it does in longform. I don’t have a specific answer, whether it’s a phrase, a line, or a...
Essaying as Empowerment
“Essays that dwell in uncertainty are in many ways closest to the truth of the human experience. They don’t offer tidy solutions because life rarely operates that way. Instead, they offer ruminations, reflection, a powerful vulnerability, and tender insight.”
Two Reviews of Phillip Lopate’s Recent Books
Listening to the Silence: Meditations on the Messy and the Mundane in A Year and a Day by Juliet Way-Henthorne By Phillip Lopate 216 pp. New York Review Books, $17.95Released October 2023In A Year and a Day, Phillip Lopate holds a mirror up to the messy, often...
2025 Steinberg Memorial Essay Contest
2025 Michael Steinberg Memorial Essay Contest Winner!Thank you to everyone who entered this year’s Michael Steinberg Memorial Essay Contest. Though we received many phenomenal essays, we hope you will join us in congratulating this year's winner, as selected by our...
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