Nonfiction

Rise-and-grind. Hustle to win. Be a go-getter. This is the messaging that business owners receive from day one. Entrepreneur Magazine tells us that a “positive mindset” is the #1 trait of a successful business...

Pnininizing Hamlet: Nabokov & Shakespeare in the Park By Rachel Wagner And just at the top of the fifth act with Ophelia acting all crazy singing and sobbing and slopping all over the floor, they yell...

AS ABELHAS FIZERAM MEL NA CAVEIRA DO LEÃO Por João Franco             Era no reinado de D. Afonso IV, rei de Portugal e dos Algarves. Período de relativa acalmia, seguindo a estabilidade que o longo governo...

             It is a mild winter day in Buenos Aires, August of 1990, and my uncle Cacho, dark eyes convivial, is introducing me to an old friend in the Ezeiza Airport. My uncle's friend...

A blank page was staring straight into Phoebe’s soul. She had opened her laptop, creating a new document to write in. At first, she thought it was going to be easy, but ten minutes...

Ben took a photograph of me as I breastfeed our son for the first time; he did not take a photograph of me breastfeeding for the last time. It was not supposed the be...

My Body As a child, I never played with or asked for baby dolls. Those dolls never caught my attention. Growing up being a wife and mother was heavily talked about and expected of women....

Home from the Barber’s by Yoon Chung The flash of confusion on his face is not off-putting. I had prepared myself for it. Smiling, I ask the barber for a haircut. “I’m sorry, but this is a...

On Breastfeeding Ben took a photograph of me as I breastfeed our son for the first time; he did not take a photograph of me breastfeeding for the last time. It was not supposed the...

Camille Bégin is an award-winning historian of food and the senses who turned to creative writing as she faced a formidable set of life-changing events. Her writing has most recently appeared in Gastronomica. Born...