Rachel Howard is the author of a novel, The Risk of Us, and a memoir about her father’s unsolved murder, The Lost Night. She is also a dance critic and arts writer for the San Francisco Chronicle and Fjord Review. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, StoryQuarterly, ZYZZYVA, Gulf Coast, Berfrois, and elsewhere.
Rachel Howard
Articles
The Man with the Poodle: Political Theater in the Time of CRT
A rural California school board meeting turns into comic opera.
Of Kierkegaard and Climate Change
Rachel Howard recounts a harrowing experience brought on by the worsening climate crisis.
Yearning for Transcendence
Rachel Howard reviews Sands Hall’s memoir of her seduction by and escape from Scientology.
Love and Kierkegaard in the Age of Trump
The difference between us and them, in marriage and philosophy.
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