Grief and Mourning

Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death” treats death as a gentleman caller. What does grief do to time, causality, and reason?

Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking chronicles the first year after her husband’s death. Is denial a pathology—or a form of love? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Notes on Grief renders loss across cultures.

Judith Butler asks: what determines whose deaths “count”? Nora McInerny reminds us that we don’t move on from grief—we move forward with it.