Eight stories that explore the theme, “home.”
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Posted inEditor's Pick
We Have Always Lived in the House
In this personal essay, in the face of tragic loss, Victoria Comella searches for the home she left behind, only to find it seventeen years later in the last place she expected.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
We Have Always Lived in the House
In the face of tragic loss, Victoria Comella searches for the home she left behind, only to find it seventeen years later in the last place she expected.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
We Have Always Lived in the House
In the face of tragic loss, Victoria Comella searches for the home she left behind, only to find it seventeen years later in the last place she expected.
Posted inHistory, Quotes
Nothing But Time and Tides and Salt and Mud and Warren Ellis
Once described by 8th century Mercian king Offa as “a terrible place,” it’s an odd, out-of-the-way part of the world.
Posted inFeature
Home is a Cup of Tea
Sketch artist and writer Candace Rose Rardon tells the story of her search for home through the different teas she has discovered while traveling.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Quotes
Not For the Paint of Heart
Mystery brunette and GQ correspondent Taffy Brodesser-Akner rented and rented, until a bad experience with a New Jersey landlord and a fit of financial security convinced her and her husband it was time to commit to homeownership. Now for the hard part: Choosing paint colors without having a complete existential breakdown. Akner details her taupe night […]
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
America’s HGTV Obsession: A Reading List
These longreads explore some of HGTV’s most popular home and lifestyle shows, from House Hunters to Fixer Upper.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Duality of ‘Home,’ or, a Life Both Lived and On Display
In The New York Times Magazine, Rachel Cusk meditates on the ways our homes are simultaneously the places we live, and set pieces that we art-direct.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Why We Dream About Our Childhood Homes
Sigmund Freud called dreams ”the royal road to the unconscious” and theorized that they reflected highly individual unconscious wishes. His student Carl Jung, who later broke with him, thought the recurring use of enduring symbols in dreams, like mazes, mirrors and snakes, reflected something more collective and universal. *** Many people interviewed said they dreamed […]