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Leslie Jamison
Leslie Jamison is the author of three nonfiction books The RecoveringThe Empathy Exams, and most recently, the essay collection Make it Scream, Make it Burn as well as a novel, The Gin Closet. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University.

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The Disquieting Muses

Essay

Issue No. 18

Leslie Jamison

Essay

Issue No. 18

I.   In Within Heaven and Hell (1996), Ellen Cantor’s voice-over tells the story of a doomed love affair while the video footage toggles...

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March 2013

Heroines

Kate Zambreno

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March 2013

I am beginning to realise that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking...

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February 2015

A Closer Joan

Shawn Wen

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February 2015

Here are a few of the Joans I know. The girl who arrives at Port Authority Bus Terminal in...

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January 2012

Collapse - A Memoir

Jesse Loncraine

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January 2012

Author’s Note   I began writing about the war five years after it was over; a war the world...

 

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