Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Holy Land, Holy Life
On October 10th, 2023, I rediscover a keffiyeh — a traditional Palestinian scarf — while unpacking boxes in my new apartment in Seattle.
Portrait of My Body in the Land of X
In the photos taken before I wore it, the gown hangs from a grape arbor.
At the Cut
The American dentist who shot Cecil the Lion once said, If I had known this animal had a name … I obviously wouldn’t have killed it.
The Year of Getting Better
“It’s the year of getting better,” her mother said as she walked into the room. It was Thora’s second hospital stay of the year.
On Employability
"Why is it that the more transsexual I get, the more employable I feel?"
The Sound of Absence
Erin Langner is well into adulthood when she is suddenly overcome with nostalgia—and guilt—about her long-since-over childhood obsession with the late R&B icon Aaliyah. In her essay, “The Sound of Absence,” Langner is a reporter and poet both, investigating the psychological phenomena of cultural erasure while also penning a heart-achingly tender ode to the things we love and lose, and the things time begs us to leave behind.
The Haunted
The summer before I published my first — and so far, only — book, my husband Alonso and I finally saved enough money and time to spend a week in Paris.
Side Effects
We sit across from each other to play the game Othello.
One Square Inch of Silence
I said goodbye to my father for the first and last time, after his death, in the quietest place in the United States.
The Granary
This past November, I was a visitor in a house with many presences: a mouse in the ceiling, ladybug colonies in the doorframe, accumulations and whispers in the hollow of the wall.
