Adam Levin on How to Exacerbate Trauma

This interview was featured in the Books & Fiction newsletter, which delivers the stories behind the stories, along with our latest fiction. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. In “Jenny Annie Fanny Addie,” your story in this week’s issue, a twelve-year-old girl named Addie is at a swimming lesson at her day camp […]

Why we mourn childhood stages and how to not dwell in it

As term one commences, my youngest of three children will start kindergarten. When I was deep in the trenches of early parenting, reaching this milestone felt like a mirage of sorts — something far off in the distance that I’d never quite reach. Now that it’s here however, it’s more bittersweet than I imagined. Change […]