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Art & Kinship: Laila Lalami's The Dream Hotel
The Ancestor Trouble newsletter has a new name, Meditations on Kinship. In this installment: Laila Lalami's gripping The Dream Hotel and what it owes to…
Mar 11
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December 2024
Reading recommendations from coldland
Louise Erdrich's The Sentence. Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry. Essays from Susan Dominus, Sarah Smarsh, Hector Tobar, Nina St. Pierre, and more…
Dec 7, 2024
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November 2024
Cities are also nature, the Earth reminds us
Under ordinary circumstances, living across the street from the woodlands of Forest Park in New York City is a balm. Right now, though, the trees are…
Nov 15, 2024
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October 2024
Staying connected & present in these times
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Oct 12, 2024
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September 2024
Art & Kinship: Marie Mutsuki Mockett's The Tree Doctor
I first encountered Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s work in her engaging, quietly profound, and beautifully and wryly observed Letter From a Japanese…
Sep 16, 2024
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August 2024
Taking T for Jesus
My new Baffler essay, on the transphobic evangelicals hawking hormones, and also developments closer to home; also, books, events, and links of note.
Aug 21, 2024
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March 2024
Art & Kinship: Garrard Conley's All the World Beside
I met Garrard Conley at a dinner in Boston years ago.
Mar 30, 2024
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Art & Kinship: Emily Raboteau's Lessons For Survival
Emotional recurrences in families have fascinated me as long as I can remember.
Mar 12, 2024
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Maud Newton
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February 2024
Family stories we (tell ourselves we) can't tell
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Feb 3, 2024
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November 2023
Wishes amid the Thinning Veil
My sister took this photo of our mom and me in May 1998, in Asheville, after our granny (our mom’s mom) died.
Nov 2, 2023
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September 2023
No care plan outside of the Rapture
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Sep 26, 2023
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August 2023
So many ancestor links
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Aug 29, 2023
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