This Week in Essays

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For Slate, Tre Johnson writes on the juxtaposition between black erasure and the prominence of black music.

At Words without Borders, Shanaz Habib looks at the empathy-inducing claims of literature, in particular as it applies to world travel.

“I was a girl who was taught to be small and grew up to want very big things. When I got some of them I didn’t believe my luck. But more than that, I didn’t believe I deserved it, that my work had earned the space.” At [PANK], Nancy Reddy writes on learning to accept success and dream big.

For The Rumpus, Hannah Hindley writes on the particular pain of watching a sibling’s path diverge from one’s own.

At The Believer, Wyatt Williams thoughtfully looks for space for men’s abortion stories.

For Brevity, Joanna Brichetto takes solace in a robin as the world goes to crap.

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