A Feast for Lost Souls
In Sinaloa, Mexico, women recover the bodies of missing loved ones—and cook to keep their memories of the dead alive.
In Sinaloa, Mexico, women recover the bodies of missing loved ones—and cook to keep their memories of the dead alive.
Annelise Jolley The Atavist Magazine Dec 2021 20min Permalink
Complex grieving rituals in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide.
Scholastique Mukasonga The New Yorker Jun 2020 25min Permalink
He helped build an artists’ utopia. Now he faces trial for 36 deaths there.
Elizabeth Weil New York Times Magazine Dec 2018 45min Permalink
A lover's death sends an artist into increasing spirals.
Darci Schummer Ninth Letter Jan 2019 10min Permalink
There is no script for losing a spouse in your 30s.
CHRISTINA FRANGOU The Globe and Mail Dec 2016 30min Permalink
A mysterious stone and the complexities of grief.
Zulema Renee Summerfield Guernica Apr 2016 25min Permalink
A distraught brother is given a Ziplog bag of his sister's ashes.
"So where should he stow a Ziploc bag of his sister’s ashes? Not all of her cremains, mind you. About a third, according to his father. Noah didn’t like the idea of their dad divvying her up, like a drug dealer, weighing out bags of powder. But more than that he also doesn’t like having that baggie now. On the airplane. Heading back to San Francisco. After the funeral."
Joshua Mohr Monkeybicycle Mar 2014 Permalink
A year with a high school support group for boys who have lost a parent.
John Faherty Cincinnati Enquirer Jun 2013 35min Permalink