Leslie Jamison

The Bear’s Kiss

What do we learn when the boundaries between humans and animals collapse?

The Self Unmoored

The heroine of Susan Taubes’s novel Divorcing moves like a fugitive: a woman who has left her marriage and abandoned the structure of a recognizable plot line.

Other Voices, Other Rooms

People told me motherhood would feel like deprivation—losing time, losing sleep, losing freedom—but in the beginning it felt more like sudden and exhausting plenitude.

Pandemic Journal

Dispatches from around the world documenting the coronavirus outbreak

‘Since I Became Symptomatic’

When I wake with my heart pounding in the middle of the night, my sheets are soaked with sweat that must be full of virus. The virus is my new partner, our third companion in the apartment, wetly draped across my body in the night.