Grief

Authors

When the Author Behind the Walk Loses Someone: On Cheryl Strayed and the Weight of Grief

Cheryl Strayed announced the death of her husband, documentary filmmaker Brian Lindstrom. A reflection on loss, literature, and the light the people we love leave behind.

Reviews

The Verb That Never Dies: Yiyun Li's Pulitzer Memoir

Yiyun Li's Things in Nature Merely Grow has won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir. It is a book about losing two sons to suicide — written in a prose so precise it seems almost to refuse the consolation of literature. Almost.