Letters
Correspondence, published with permission.
Exchanges with readers and other writers, lightly edited and kept in the order they were sent.
From Mara Ellison To a young reporter14 Aug 2026Get the name right“Then get the quiet thing right, the one nobody asked you to notice.”From Rosa Kim To the desk2 Aug 2026On reading in a hospital waiting room“Your river essay was the first thing in weeks that did not ask anything of me.”From Tomas Reyes To Mara Ellison19 Jul 2026About the second section“It is doing two jobs. Pick one and let the river do the other.”From Ines Halvorsen To the desk3 Jul 2026Why I stopped writing endings“A story that knows how it ends has usually stopped listening.”