reflections

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The ego-shattering experience of giving birth in 2016 and raising a son prompted reflections about what men’s inner lives were really like, and she wanted to write about them.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

They’re reflections of our overall culture, which is coded to navigate around violence and depravity, as well as all the ways freedom of expression is being constricted.

From Salon • May 8, 2026

News magazine Der Spiegel ran a long report about a local church on Poel island where the guestbook was no longer filled with personal reflections or prayers, but with messages about Timmy.

From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026

This week and next, we’re sharing more rounds of your reflections on memory, identity, and what anchors us when the ground shifts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

They weren’t solid gray, but filaments of a hundred different grays and blues and pearls, and they looked like reflections of light wavering on water, with the softest sunburst of amber haloing his pupils.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor