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Leslie Jamison

Leslie Jamison is the author of The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, a critical memoir, two essay collections—The Empathy Exams and Make It Scream, Make It Burn—and a novel, The Gin Closet. She directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia. (May 2020)

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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.

Private Lives Public Spaces

an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, through July 1, 2020

May 14, 2020 issue

Pandemic Journal

Dispatches from around the world documenting the coronavirus outbreak

April 23, 2020 issue

‘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.

March 26, 2020

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