Making Grief Visible

01/04/2026

The legendary photographer Sally Mann writes about death and creativity in her memoir Art Work. Her book is dedicated to her deceased son Emmett ‘O lost, and by the wind grieved’:

01/04/2026

Tatiana Schlossberg, daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. She writes about her fear of adding another tragedy to her family’s life: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/DQRTIK

01/02/2026

“When I tell people that I had a brother who was kidnapped and murdered, I’m often asked how my parents survived,” David Kushner writes. “I was only four when Jon died, so for a long time I had the same question. My family suffered an unfathomable loss. Yet I grew up as free as most kids in the 1970s: my friends and I biked around town for hours, losing ourselves in the woods, the lakes, the arcades, with no cell phones to find us. When I finally had children of my own, I wondered more than ever how my mom and dad had done it. How had they found the strength not only to survive but to let me go?” A psychological phenomenon called post-traumatic growth helped Kushner contextualize his family’s experience. Psychologists have long studied resilience—the ability to bounce back and move on. But post-traumatic growth is different; it’s what happens when trauma changes and deepens life’s meaning. Read more: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/B8FCm9

12/23/2025

With the tragic loss of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele in the news, many are feeling the familiar, unsettling stir of grief—even for people we didn’t know personally.

This week, we’re revisiting a thoughtful article that helps explain why the death of a public figure can hit us so deeply, and how our emotional responses reveal something profound about what it means to be human.

Grief doesn’t always make sense, and it doesn’t come with rules. It can show up suddenly, resurface unexpectedly, and leave us wondering why it still matters so much.

This piece offers compassion, clarity, and permission to feel what you’re feeling—without judgment.

If you’ve ever been moved by the loss of someone in the public eye, or found yourself grappling with your own grief during this season, this is a meaningful read.

Take a moment to explore it in The Sunday Paper. https://pulse.ly/rqmhbddus4

12/21/2025

“I was neither angry nor scared. It simply was. It was a fact about the world, like the distance from the sun to the Earth.” Revisit an excerpt from Paul Kalanithi’s posthumously published memoir about his battle with metastatic lung cancer, “When Breath Becomes Air,” which is approaching its 10th anniversary since its publication: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/PDToAo

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