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Suspended in Time
In photographer McNair Evans' 'drawn inward' series, travel is a meditative state between here and there.
 • Matthew Newton
When the Guns Come Out
A meditation in six parts.
 • Matthew Newton
Spaces Between
What does a place say about its people?
 • Matthew Newton
Writing the Worst of Times
How do you write about the worst time in your life without losing the reader because the story is too bleak? How do you balance light and dark, joy and…
 • Matthew Newton
On the Phone with Harvey Pekar
In a fleeting moment of rash confidence, I decided to call Cleveland's curmudgeonly pioneer of autobiographical comics. Two decades later, our…
 • Matthew Newton
Where The Fear Has Gone
Not everyone thrives amid anxiety and uncertainty.
 • Matthew Newton
Being a Fool About It
On persistence, self-sabotage, and starting over.
 • Matthew Newton
Death of a Good Job
A Memoir of the Great Recession
 • Matthew Newton
Down in a Dead Man's Town
My uncle, plagued by addiction and the Vietnam War, separates himself from the world.
 • Matthew Newton
Of Body and Blood
To live all your life in the same place is to live in a rupture in time. Years slip by without notice, yet hours can feel like seasons.
 • Matthew Newton
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