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“Hyperconsciousness of the Historical Instability of Words”: An Interview...
Monica Youn’s poems are precise, sharp-edged and fleet-footed; they always seem to be moving in three different directions at once. She is the author of three books of poems: Blackacre, Barter, and...
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The Elephant in the Room: How Elissa Schappell Broke My Heart Twice
In March 2015, I went off the pill. I had gone to my local Planned Parenthood clinic in Ithaca, NY, where I was living at the time, and had been instructed to start taking prenatal vitamins and expect...
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“Becoming A Parent Made Me A Ruthless Editor of My Own Work”: An Interview...
Elizabeth Onusko’s poems are sharp-edged, sometimes bleak, but also very funny; they feel timeless, but also of the moment in their portrayal of a hopeless modern world—ours—and the struggles and...
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Shirley Jackson, Madeleine L’Engle, and Motherhood
I read much of Shirley Jackson’s memoir of raising four children, Life Among the Savages (1952), on a weekend when I was caring for three children. For a brief stretch—maybe five pages—we achieved a...
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Rachel Cusk and the Unbearable Lightness of Being
It is only when I walk through the front door to my house that I realize things have changed. It is as if I have come to the house of someone who has just died, someone I loved, someone I can’t...
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Band of Mothers
A few days before my son was born, my parents and sister came to Princeton, where my husband and I lived at the time, to witness the birth. They had found a sublet a few blocks away from our apartment,...
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“A Wilderness of Being”: Maternity in the Apocalypse
In Louise Erdrich’s latest novel Future Home of the Living God, the laws of physics have gone haywire and evolution has started moving backward. Animals have stopped “breeding true,” and pretty soon,...
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Domesticity and Anne of Green Gables
I was an angry little girl. Angry that when I expressed something I thought was important and profound, adults smiled at me like I was a soft kitten. Angry that I was skinny and awkward, angry that I...
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Kudos by Rachel Cusk
Kudos Rachel Cusk Farrar, Straus and Giroux | June 5, 2018 Amazon | Powell’s In 2013, Rachel Cusk became the subject of a book review so scathing, The Guardian declared it “Hatchet Job of the Year.”...
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Meaghan O’Connell’s Lessons in Parenthood
Perhaps I’m not alone here, but as a woman without children (yet), I’ve always thought of stories of pregnancy and childbirth as a cross between how-to manuals and cautionary tales. It’s rare that a...
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