The Delacorte Review

Grief takes many forms, but what can make it feel so much worse is loneliness, the sense that no one understands my grief, or worse still, appreciates why I feel it. How do we report on it? thedelacortereview.substack.com/p/chapter-213-…

Our latest story, "Breastfeeding Grief," on an intimate loss and finding you're not alone in experiencing it. By @MiriamWasser. "Of all the unexpected things I experienced as a first-time mom, not being able to breastfeed was the biggest surprise." delacortereview.org/2026/05/05/bre…

Our family histories can tell us about ourselves in ways that few other stories can. So time and again, we ascend to the metaphorical attic and begin sifting through the detritus of lives that might hold the key to insight and illumination. tinyurl.com/3kkcjjaa

This week, we covered the life and work of Mohamed Choukri (1935-2000), perhaps the most renowned Moroccan writer, a uniquely visceral narrator, and the great voice of Tangier. Read the full piece here: thedelacortereview.substack.com/p/chapter-211-… #Tanger #literature

“We writers may not necessarily be nuts, but it must appear that what we do with our working lives is crazy. Day in and day out, we fill empty canvases with words that, we hope, will succeed in getting people to see and feel what we have seen and learned.” thedelacortereview.substack.com/p/chapter-210-…

Writing is an endeavor that comes with great risk. Not the physical risks of other professions, but a different sort of risk – one that cuts to who we are and, through our work, how we hope the world will see us. thedelacortereview.substack.com/p/chapter-209-…

We spoke to @LuisAlbertoUrr3 about his novel Good Night, Irene, the story of the 250 women who, in #WWII, volunteered to join a branch of the Red Cross and were known as the Clubmobile Corps. “The point of this book, for me, was about creating a monument.” tinyurl.com/92c6v96c

This week, we were fortunate to speak with Australian writer Josephine Rowe, who discusses the distance needed to write a personal novel, the temptations of going feral, and the intangible weight of the images we live with. tinyurl.com/5ywuxvbh #Writing #Writers

How do you free a writer’s voice from self-consciousness? tinyurl.com/39bh9n95 #teaching #journalism

Being published has never been easier. Being seen has never been more difficult. What if the solution was not a matter of a single institutional gatekeeper vouching for the piece, but many individual ones? tinyurl.com/52rxjxxr #publishing

We are in an in-between phase in #publishing, even as new technologies make it possible to be a published author overnight. How will my book ever get reviewed if a mainstream house does not publish it? Look around: how many #bookreviews do you still see? tinyurl.com/2ckbry6y

“Every reader is a world unto themselves: no two personal libraries are identical.” #Books come into our lives, but they also leave them, gifted or lost. What do they come to mean to us, and where do they go when they’re gone? thedelacortereview.substack.com/p/chapter-203-…

It has long been an article of faith in the writing trade that the compliments we most value come from those who had first savaged us. No pain. No glory. But is that really true? tinyurl.com/38s97td3 #writingtips

“Writers see a world that is never static. Their struggle is to make sense of it, to impose order on the chaotic. To take on that battle is a humbling experience, and those of us who are not humbled by it will avoid what’s most frightening.” tinyurl.com/bpa3dj9f

"Some stories need no guiding hand. These are the rarest stories of all. The killing of Alex Pretti is such a story, but in a way that transcends the manner in which it unfolded." tinyurl.com/mttxjppv

"Schjerfbeck makes you muse, astounded by her versatility and the extraordinary change in her style, best exemplified by her self-portraits over decades." Three lessons from “Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck” at @metmuseum. tinyurl.com/f6rt8u9s

There is a long and poignant history of posthumously discovered writing. But what is it like when the author was your friend? thedelacortereview.substack.com/p/chapter-198-…

How does one deal with that #uncreativeboss #badboss who seems to stifle you at every turn? “Our editors had one phrase: 'Maybe you’d be happier working someplace else'…one went on to become ad salesman of the year for the Yellow Pages." thedelacortereview.substack.com/p/chapter-197-…

Why does the author remember, and what, from meeting NBA All-Star player Michael Ray Richardson, forty years ago? And when the memories return, how does he write what they are telling him? tinyurl.com/ye4vdmm5

Some stories keep recurring in our lives, like those new words we discover, that we then can’t help but hear seemingly everywhere. They are like magnets, attracting unforeseen connections and attaching new details as we go, until we write them. tinyurl.com/2jxxfnzm