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My First Book Outed Me

How writing poems changed the course of my life
Carl Phillips
Essays

When Does a Divorce Begin?

Most people think of it as failure. For me it was an achievement.
Anahid Nersessian
Objects of Desire

Loveseat

I threw it away. Then I wanted it back.
Helen Phillips
Folio

Poems of Lovesickness

Nine poets on eros and longing
Essays

A Glass Essay

Reading Anne Carson post-breakup
Sarah Chihaya

Our Winter Issue

Books

Searching for Seamus Heaney

What I found when I resolved to read him
Elisa Gonzalez
Books

Thomas Pynchon Is Angry

In Shadow Ticket, the novelist takes on America’s indifference to history
Richard Beck
Essays

The Unfolding of Time in Paint

My encounters with Joan Mitchell's panels
Rachel Cohen
Sepia toned photograph showing painter Joan Mitchell behind a canvas in her studio
Dan Fox as a child with his nain, or grandmother, in the chicken-filled yard of Siambr Wen, near Llanrwst, North Wales, UK
Essays

What Happened When I Began to Speak Welsh

By learning my family's language, I hoped to join their conversation.
Dan Fox
Black-and-white illustration of a therapy couch
Folio

The Analytic Lyric

Nine poets in conversation with psychoanalysis

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Fiction

One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Three Mississippi

Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Digital blocks depicting the numbers two, nine, and nine in an art installation by Tatsuo Miyajima
Folio

Memoir

Emily Hoffman
Folio

House

Emily Hoffman

From the Archives

From the Archives

Station Island

Seamus Heaney
From the Archives

A Courier for Jacques Lacan

The psychoanalyst invited me for lunch at his Parisian apartment—and drew me into his orbit
Eileen Simpson
From the Archives

The First Psychoanalyst

Erik H. Erikson