Lilith Staff
These pieces reflect this heartbreaking year of violence and loss. Two abiding themes are grief and hope
Our Most Read Stories of 2023
Tag: Loss
On Grief
Esther Jay
“Literal heartache accompanies the loss of someone you love…the phantom pain of a severed limb.”
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Your Dying Mother.
Penny Jackson
“But there is no other title. My mother is dying. This story is really for me.”
I’m 10 And I’ve Gone Through More Than Most Adults
Hana Wildman Halpern
When I watch “dramatic” TV shows, they don’t seem like much compared to my life.
Picturing Those Who Were Taken
Names and Faces
Four Israeli artists illustrating the victims of the October 7th tragedy.
“The Archivists” Dives Beneath the Surface
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Daphne Kalotay talks to Lilith about “The Archivists,” loss, and what lies beneath the surface.
A Writer’s Final Farewell to a Spouse
Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler
I was hesitant to pick up In Love as a newlywed. I am superstitious enough to worry about inviting misfortune by way of acknowledging it. But when I stood under the chuppah last November and married my husband, I remember thinking about death.
When Poetry Held Me Together
Lesléa Newman
Just as the form held the poems together, writing the poems held me together.
Life Without Lipstick
Yona Zeldis McDonough
And although none of these compare even remotely to the loss of life and living, they inflict a particular kind of pain because they are set against the backdrop of such monumental tragedy. One of those small sorrows is the loss of lipstick—and by this I mean red lipstick because for me, that’s the only kind there is.