Photo by Krisztian Matyas / Unsplash “Awl” is from a series titled “Words I Did Not Understand.” Through memory—“the first screen of nostalgia”—and language, a writer pieces together her…

Photo:  José Pablo Iglesias / Unsplash A girl learns her first lessons about cheating and death at her grandparents’ house, playing cards and Scrabble and listening to them read from…

Photo: Luiz Guimaraes / Unsplash Follow a writer-flâneuse on a New York City odyssey, appreciating life’s smaller miracles in a city with many entry points. West 32nd / Broadway. Th…

PHOTO: Larah Vidotto In this piece of flash memoir, a writer reflects on stereotypes, how Ireland has changed, and an aunt stuck in time. Dear foreigner, tell me again how it is ste…

  Left: Han Chang and his brother Eliot at Brookfield Zoo in Chicago (2001). Right: The author's mother at Xitou National Park in Taiwan (1989). Court…

Iron, Uranium, Calcium, Gold, Praseodymium, Rubidium, Stontium, and Lead books. Illustration by Shayna Pond{CR}Chromium books that are all shiny surface.…

Photo: PixabayThese two short meditations by Mexican writer Fabio Morábito both circle back to the same place: language’s confounding determination to elude our dominion.The…

Photos (left to right): Chris Davies, Eliza Bacani, Laura GilmoreThese brief pieces form a meditation on our threshold for violences, great and small. They probe the ironic relationship b…

Photo: Maria Teresa Bologna Wang Anyi traces Shanghai in map and memory as she revisits its lanes, a mental flâneur. For almost the entire decade of…