Kindness, Always Kindness

In memory of Jan Morris

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Skewing Male

What feedback from my readers told me about them, about my book, and about me

Christina Thompson

How to Live With Dying

Before I could accept mortality, I had to stop running from it

John Kaag

The Homing Instinct

Ah, Vienna, the city of my youth

Josef Eisinger

Skeletons in the Closet

Six literary haunted houses to visit this October

Amanda Parrish Morgan

Turning Leaves and Turning Pages

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The Case for Empathy

Walk a mile in someone else's words

Richard Wertime

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Our favorite epistolary novels

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“Wait” by Galway Kinnell

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“Pangur Bán” by Anonymous

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“Messiah” by Gulzar

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“The Swan” by Mary Oliver

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