• Memoir

    Protest

    Sara Stridsberg on Reading Omar El Akkad Amidst the Serbian Protests

    “I still take El Akkad’s book with me everywhere, holding it tight as if it can save my soul. It can’t.”

     
    By Sara Stridsberg  September 15, 2025
    Writing

    Spells, Skepticism, and Surrender: What Happens When the Agent Becomes the Author

    By Samantha Browning Shea  September 10, 2025
    Suicide

    Laughing in Hell: How We Tell the Stories of Other Peoples’ Suicides

    By Sarah Adler  September 8, 2025
    Sequels

    Returning to the World of Chocolat, 25 Years Later

    By Joanne Harris  September 8, 2025
    Magical Thinking

    Breadcrumbs: Searching for Synchronicity, in Life and Literature

    By Tara Yazdan Panah  September 8, 2025
    Mothers and Daughters

    On Reckoning with Her Mother’s Silent Treatment

    By Jeannie Vanasco  September 8, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Travel

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  September 5, 2025
    Tennis

    Failing Better: On The Tennis Player and The Writer

    By Thomas Swick  September 5, 2025
    Climbing

    Holding Tight: When to Fall and When to Keep Climbing

    By Emily Meg Weinstein  September 5, 2025
    Big Pharma

    The Link Between Trauma, Drug Use, and Our Search to Feel Better

    “As capitalism has invented ever more ways to be miserable, so too has it invented ever more specific ways to ease that misery.”

    By P.E. Moskowitz  September 11, 2025
    On Writing

    On Not Writing, and Letting Wildness Be Your Guide

    By Leila Chatti  September 5, 2025
    The Writing Life

    How Writing in Community Can Forge Friendships and Evoke Change

    By Beverly Gologorsky  September 5, 2025
    Australia

    Why Helen Garner Embedded With Her Grandson’s Footy Club

    By Helen Garner  September 4, 2025
    AI

    Why AI Narrators Will Never Be Able to Tell a Real Human Story

    Adam Verner Explores the Uncanny Valley of Automated Audiobooks

    By Adam Verner  September 3, 2025
    Memoir

    Miriam Toews on Grief, Guilt, and Memory

    By Miriam Toews  September 3, 2025
    Memoir

    The Necessity of Return: On Years of Ritual Killings in Nigeria

    By Adedayo Agarau  September 3, 2025
    Books

    It’s Okay to Hate The House of Mirth

    By Carlo Rotella  September 2, 2025
    Gaza

    Dr. Seema Jilani on the Dark Parallels Between Srebrenica and Gaza

    “A maligned Muslim people, abandoned by their brothers and dehumanized by the West...”

    By Seema Jilani  August 29, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Five Books With Narrators Learning to Live in Unexpected Lives

    By Kelly Sundberg  August 28, 2025
    Travel

    Here’s Obama’s 2025 summer reading list.

    By Brittany Allen  August 27, 2025
    Book Covers

    Amanda Uhle on Using a Childhood Photo as the Cover of Her Book

    By Amanda Uhle  August 27, 2025
    Writing About Disability

    Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir

    Polly Atkin Consider the Danger of Publishers Endorsing Quackery

    By Polly Atkin  August 26, 2025
    Wildfires

    Our Good Season is Your Catastrophe: On Life as a Wildland Firefighter

    By River Selby  August 25, 2025
    Gaza

    Surviving the Infamous Flour Massacre in Gaza

    By Ahmed Dader  August 25, 2025
    Autofiction

    Lalla Romano Was Writing Autofiction Before It Existed

    By Brian Robert Moore  September 5, 2025
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