She died in her nurse’s arms.
grief
“If it can’t be happy, make it beautiful.”
Lament and longing can be companions.
My years of experience as an undertaker didn’t make it easier.
I’m the only person he loved the way he loved me.
We posed this question to five writers.
The artist at the end of the world
Scott Russell Sanders’s essays balance ecological despair with the promise of human creativity.
Margaret Renkl’s stunning ability to see
It is hard to say what will enamor readers more, the bird calls or the familial ones.
Lazarus’s story is one of grief—and hope.
A white woman, her black husband, and the struggle to be known
A former Jehovah’s Witness tells her story
Amber Scorah’s memoir has a breathless quality that makes it compulsively readable.
The sarcastic and sacrilegious two-season show has a moral center.
Elaine Pagels’s lifelong search for the sacred
Pagels vividly recounts her spiritual experiences. But she won’t let herself be bound by any tradition.
The miracles of Julie Yip-Williams’s life and death
A cancer memoir about a life sustained by improbable events
My son’s death did not evoke in me an interest in the problem of suffering.