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Letter to USPS.

DO NOT Close It

By Quince Mountain | October 14, 2012
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Three Cemeteries

By Rowan Moore Gerety | February 29, 2012

Supernatural real estate in Mozambique

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Festival of the Hungry Ghosts

By Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan | October 31, 2011

What to make when it’s your turn to feed a dead grandmother?

Sweet Heaven When I Die

Chava Rosenfarb on CBC

By Jeff Sharlet | August 9, 2011

The oldest essay in my new book, Sweet Heaven When I Die, is “For Every Life Saved,” a portrait of the last great Yiddish writer, Chava Rosenfarb. I adored Chava.…

Jacket, "It’s a Jungle Out There," autumn/winter 1997–98.

Alexander McQueen’s Afterlife

By Becky Garrison | May 10, 2011

Those who only know of Alexander McQueen as the name behind the most famous wedding dress in recent history will be in for a royal shock when they step inside…

Animal Altars: All dressed up in the flesh of the dead. By Beatrice Marovich with Krista Dragomer.

Animal Altars

By Beatrice Marovich and Krista Dragomer | May 2, 2011

All dressed up in the flesh of the living dead.

Still from "Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then."

Falling Up

By Genevieve Yue | February 28, 2011

The fate of an unanswered prayer in Brent Green’s Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then.

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Mortician or Priest

By Mary Valle | January 31, 2011

What kind of exorcist do America’s movie theaters really need?

Charlie Louvin

We’re Still Louvin’ You, Charlie!

By Garrett Baer | January 27, 2011

This morning, Charlie Louvin—one half of the classic country duo the Louvin Brothers—passed away at the age of 83. Though the Brothers ended their musical partnership back in 1963, and…

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The Afterlife, The Aftermath

By Sharanya Manivannan | November 22, 2010

When a grandmother’s ghost says go, you go.

"View down on Beacon Hill & Back Bay" by Werner Kunz via Flickr.

A Package Arrives

By Ray Hsu | November 21, 2010

“We just put it into a drawer, because we had enough to deal with.”

Note to cancer by author.

That’s Cancertainment!

By Mary Valle | October 18, 2010

Sexy corpses and smug survivors: cancer gets its own TV show.

Haymarket Martyrs Memorial

Going to the Graves on Labor Day

By Becky Garrison | October 12, 2010

I tend to avoid cemeteries. White marble slabs creep me out in a clown-like way. But when I arrived in Chicago on Labor Day, my hostess suggested that I check…

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Trish Hooper’s Last Words

By Quince Mountain | October 5, 2010

KtB has had a spate of submissions regarding illness and death lately, and autumn has only just begun. In today’s piece, “Letting Gravity Win,” KtB editor Meera Subramanian reminds us…

"Luis and the Balloons" by Thomas Hawk

Letting Gravity Win

By Meera Subramanian | October 4, 2010

Four questions whose answers might save your life.

White skinned male mannequin, lighted from the right side of the image, sitting behind a large shop window. It has strong features, colorful eyes and plastic hair. Behind it there are two other models, another white one and a female mannequin with shiny black hair.

The Reconciliation of Unbelief

By Alane Mason | September 6, 2010

A story within the AIDS story.

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Is He Dead?

By Alison Stein Wellner | August 30, 2010

An estranged stepfather’s suicide begs the question.

Photo by CS Muncy.

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By Eileen Myles | August 16, 2010

“People were getting auctioned up on stage but I didn’t see anything I wanted nor did I think I should be for sale.”