Nina Aron

Feb 12, 2025 | wordswithoutborders.org | Nina Aron |Sabitha Söderholm

“It seems to me,” wrote M. F. K. Fisher in the foreword to her 1943 classic The Gastronomical Me, “that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.” The line aptly summarizes the terrain of Bread and Milk, Karolina Ramqvist’s fifth book and the third to appear in English.

Jan 24, 2025 | full-stop.net | Nina Aron

[Archipelago; 2024]Tr. from the Danish by Martin AitkenIn contemporary literature, the psychiatric institution is saddled with a heavy burden. Variously depicted as a microcosm of a stultifying world, a setting for individual transformation, a site of battle against oppressive systems, and a place of revelation about the limits of human abjection, the institution encompasses stark contradictions: isolation and camaraderie, compliance and subversion, sadism and care.

Sep 12, 2024 | ninarenataaron.substack.com | Nina Aron

In the month since my father died, I’ve tried reading many things. It’s hard to find the right thing, to feel any sense that I am in the right place mentally, just as it’s hard to get comfortable physically. It’s as though I’m navigating a new skin. My mind is busy, my thinking stuttered, punctuated by memories of him, his final days, final utterances. Or else I’m suspended in a state of strange numbness. Either way, I don’t have the mental capacity for a narrative.

Jul 1, 2024 | ninarenataaron.substack.com | Nina Aron

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Jun 10, 2024 | slate.com | Nina Aron |Carvell Wallace

Author Nina Renata Aron on loving yourself through a messy goodbye. Choose your preferred player: For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support. Thanks! Check your phone for a link to finish setting up your feed. Please enter a 10-digit phone number.