Featured Pieces
Reporting from the Mississippi Delta on flood, loss, and the long memory of a region that refuses to be still.
An essay on time, grief, and the strange mercy of forgetting what we believed we could not survive.
A defense of curiosity for its own sake, in an age of optimization and frictionless relevance.
The essay is, at its heart, an act of attention — the writer saying: this thing, this ordinary and overlooked thing, is worth your time.
Alex Rivers — Between the LinesRecent Writing
Writer and journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. My essays and reporting focus on the overlooked corners of American life — the places and people that resist easy narrative. I'm drawn to memory, place, and the slow accumulation of meaning in ordinary lives.
Author of Between the Lines (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023). MFA from Columbia University. Fellow, MacDowell Colony.