Learning to Listen to Patients’ Stories
The pandemic has been a time of painful social isolation for many. Few places can be as isolating as hospitals,
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Stories
Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Remove My Wedding Ring’
Negotiating Separation Outside the Chicago airport the cold creeps up my coat, stiffening my spine as I hug my husband.
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Review: ‘It’s a Sin’ Tells the Stories That Were and Could Have Been
In 1999, Russell T. Davies created “Queer as Folk,” his raw, exuberant British series about the lives and lusts of
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘What Will You Miss if You Leave Him?’
Lending a Dream I woke to Nkozi’s arm around my waist. “I had another money dream,” she said, her brow
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘She Was a Little Weirdo’
Glad He Asked On our fourth date, Tayo and I ate tacos on the steps of a colorful church in
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Joyce Carol Oates’s New Stories Consider the Roads Not Taken
THE (OTHER) YOUStoriesBy Joyce Carol Oates As is true for many of the mournful stories in Joyce Carol Oates’s trenchant
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘He Had the Nicest Toes’
Survival in Rural Oregon I found myself in rural Oregon, two years into a marriage with the wrong man and
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The Stories We Tell for Black History Month and the Stories That Get Left Out
This is the first piece in “Black History, Continued,” a series that will explore pivotal moments and transformative figures in
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘Stay With Me Until Morning’
Taking the Wheel My grandparents had a 20-foot-long, “Breaking Bad”-style camper that they would drive from snowy Wisconsin to sunny
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The Stories of Those Who Lost Decades in the Closet
“We started it. You young folks finish it.” — The Rev. Magora Kennedy, an 82-year-old on the fight for LGBT+
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