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When Does a Divorce Begin?

Most people think of it as failure. For me it was an achievement.
Anahid Nersessian
Dan Fox as a child with his nain, or grandmother, in the chicken-filled yard of Siambr Wen, near Llanrwst, North Wales, UK

What Happened When I Began to Speak Welsh

By learning my family's language, I hoped to join their conversation.
Dan Fox

Like most people, I’ve had plenty of practice concealing what roils within me.

Helen Phillips Loveseat

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Dick Rudisill’s “Ruined Couch,” a gelatin silver print of a cushionless, dirt-covered sofa

Terrence Malick’s Disciples

Why the auteur is the most influential director in Hollywood
Bilge Ebiri
Sepia toned photograph showing painter Joan Mitchell behind a canvas in her studio

The Unfolding of Time in Paint

My encounters with Joan Mitchell's panels
Rachel Cohen

The Analytic Lyric

Nine poets in conversation with psychoanalysis
Black-and-white illustration of a therapy couch

Middle Vision

Wendy Lotterman


Parents

D. A. Fisher

The Plumber

Kathryn Maris

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Searching for Seamus Heaney

What I found when I resolved to read him
Elisa Gonzalez
Seamus Heaney surrounded by books at London’s Royal Society of Literature in March 1995

Memoir

Emily Hoffman

House

Emily Hoffman

A Courier for Jacques Lacan

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