by Elizabeth Spencer | Nov 12, 2023 | Book Reviews
by Elizabeth Spencer What happens when two people fall in love, get married, have children, but can’t agree on where to live? In Places We Left Behind, Jennifer Lang unpacks this seemingly intractable problem across 21 years of marriage and several international...
by Jennifer Lang | Feb 12, 2023 | Essays
by Jennifer Lang but neither is it somewhere. Home was not Chicago or its suburbs, where I went to college and called my mother every February crying that my nostrils had frozen together like Lake Michigan. Home was not Paris, where I puckered my lips to pronounce...
by Jennifer Lang | Jun 27, 2021 | Essays
by Jennifer Lang I want to praise my sleep cycle that knocks me out at night—usually around 11:10—and steers me straight to REM. I want to praise REM, which lasts an unknown amount of time until it doesn’t and ends in awareness. I want to praise awareness at...
by Jennifer Lang | Apr 22, 2018 | Essays
by Jennifer Lang “Excusez moi, Madame,” I say, puckering my lips as if sucking on a Jolly Rancher sour apple candy. A woman I assume to be the artist looks up and acknowledges me. Her shoulder-length hair blows wildly in the August wind. All weekend, we—husband, kids,...