Essays

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  • Going upstream

    It was lovemaking with the landscape.
  • Facts of life

    One wonderful, confusing, sweaty summer in Miami, I got my first lessons about sex from my pal, my dad and a Jersey girl.
  • I am a smoker

    I hate you, too.
  • Camels and cowboys

    I'll always be a smoker, even when I quit.
  • The joys of anorexia

    Not everyone is destroyed by eating disorders.
  • Diagnosis: Marriage

    When my husband gets ill, I'm the one who feels sick.
  • "Fat guys kick ass"

    If I ate less, I'd lose weight. But I don't, because I love food.
  • Publisher sponsors essay competition

    Bradt Publications' contest offers a free trip for two to Patagonia as its top prize.
  • Sacred places: England before the fall

    A lifelong traveler reflects on his own piece of heaven.
  • A second opinion

    One doctor's enlightenment through pain.
  • Life's little bumps

    Scars are a corporeal scrapbook of a woman's experiences.
  • Essay questions

    How well can computers judge prose -- and would you want one grading your exam?
  • All My Habits Are Bad

    Grace Paley talks about the moral obligations of writers, the success of the women's movement and the importance of not giving a shit.
  • Iowa heartland

    Jennifer New describes the joys and dilemmas of being a traveler from Iowa.
  • Adventures of my youth

    Approaching her 40th birthday, a writer reflects on the careless, carefree adventures of her youth -- and wonders if she can recapture that footloose spirit again.
  • History and hallucination

    Jan Morris writes a stirring tribute to the presence of history and hallucination in Gdansk.
  • 21st: A giant sucking sound

    The Web's "longest-running daily column" takes a paperback leap for bratty immortality -- and succeeds in killing off a few more trees.
  • Anything We Love Can Be Saved

    Ellizabeth Judd reviews Alice Walker's book of essays "Anything We Love Can Be Saved".
  • Women's Ways of Bullying

    A survivor of a feminist co-operative tells all.
  • The Practice of Writing

    Jennifer Howard reviews "The Practice of Writing: Essays, Lectures, Reviews and a Diary" by David Lodge.
  • The Book of Yaak

    Robert Spillman reviews Rick Bass's book of essays entitled "The Book of Yaak".
  • Polaroids From The Dead

    Charles Taylor reviews Douglas Coupland's book of essays "Polaroids From The Dead".
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