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These art objects let me feel my own living form through the many shapes they had been pressed into.    

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The Almost Dad

Is it okay that he’s over here so often, hooking up my mum’s speakers and swirling his single malt Scotch? We all wonder, we never ask.

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Whatever angle you look at it, one detail is incontrovertible: in the end, a man is going to be killed.

Midwives

It’s weird how hitting the ground doesn’t really hurt.

The Bodybuilder

These art objects let me feel my own living form through the many shapes they had been pressed into.    

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The author of Hidden Valley Road on true crime reporting, family secrets, and finding stories. 

The Keeper of the Bees

I followed a desire to witness, but not control, the inner workings of living things.

The Hazards of Carpooling

This was a real friend. Like old times—better times. When your chip bags spilled over and your idols reeked and all your friends tried to kill you.

'I Don't Think the Artist Longs For the Emergency': An Interview with Olivia Laing

The author of Funny Weather on publishing a book during a global pandemic, the eternal appeal of outsider artists, and living with an oncoming sense of catastrophe.

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Mom wasn’t interested in being the type of mother—or wife—who put her own life on the back burner

Entering the House

Prepared for every situation, even pandemic, mothers should be the ones on TV when our nation is under attack by terrorists or viruses.