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    7 Books About Complicated Mother-Daughter RelationshipsSpend Mother’s Day reading instead of at brunch.
    By Emily Gould
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    ‘You Must Play Basketball’He wants to see my moves. My Black athleticism will turn him on. But my body is a marionette with tangled and impossibly knotted strings.
    By Brian Broome
  3. fiction
    The CureShe enjoyed sex most when her lovers seemed satisfied.
    By Melissa Febos
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    The Dangerous Legacy of White Male AmericaAn excerpt from a new book by the author of So You Want to Talk About Race.
    By Ijeoma Oluo
  5. fiction
    What Are You Going Through: A Novel Excerpt“A whole other feeling floods me when she reveals that she is in possession of a euthanasia drug.”
    By Sigrid Nunez
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    Want: A Novel Excerpt“My body almost single-handedly bankrupted us.”
    By Lynn Steger Strong
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    Luster“Then I remember his wife, the coaster eases downwards, and we fall.”
    By Raven Leilani
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    Lost in the SystemA day in the life of a homeless single mother.
    By Lauren Sandler
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    There’s a Divide in Even the Closest Interracial FriendshipsIncluding ours.
    By Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
  10. fiction
    The Vanishing Half“Would they see her for what she was? Or rather, what she wasn’t?”
    By Brit Bennett
  11. fiction
    The Conditions of Deliverance“Nothing was better than aligning with one of Vern’s messages from God.”
    By Chelsea Bieker
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    The Last Time We Had SexThere is something vulgar about how careless he is with pleasure.
    By Stephanie Danler
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    Who Cares If Astrology Isn’t Real?It’s not a science — which is why I love it.
    By Claire Comstock-Gay
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    Our Mothers, Before UsWhat can we learn from images of the women we never met?
    By Edan Lepucki
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    Editing My Body“I’d just signed the form that said ‘paid: $6,043.00/male reconstructed chest.’”
    By Emerson Whitney
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    The Kind of Mother I’d BeBeginning a journey into the science of attachment.
    By Bethany Saltman
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    The Land’s Dank SecretsLucy will remember the hardness on Ma’s face years later. Was it resolve, or courage, or coldness?
    By C Pam Zhang
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    Like Any Good Sidekick“Laura could take over as the heroine if the situation demanded it.”
    By Emily Gould
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    A Sharpener of Knives“I typed ‘onion soup’ and ‘how to make’ into Explorer. I began to despair. I read the recipe. I read it again.”
    By Jessi Jezewska Stevens
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    I Promised You a Job, Not a Family“I agree to follow him to his home, and to perform the job of being his mother.”
    By Hilary Leichter
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    Room at the Table“Grace had the urge to introduce herself again, though that would be insulting.”
    By Vanessa Hua
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    It’s Relief to Be SeenAn excerpt from Paul Lisicky’s new memoir, Later, about living through the AIDS crisis.
    By Paul Lisicky