• Memoir

    Essay

    The Dangerous Lure of Writing For White Readers in an MFA

    By Aisha Sabatini Sloan  November 28, 2017
    Excerpts

    Claire Vaye Watkins: Some Houses (Various Stages of Dissolve)

    By Claire Vaye Watkins  November 28, 2017
    Essay

    Writing About Alcohol Brought Me Back from the Brink of Addiction

    By Hope Ewing  November 27, 2017
    Essay

    Growing Up in a Phantom-Filled Desert

    By Hannah Lillith Assadi  November 27, 2017
    Essay

    Min Jin Lee: Love in the New World

    By Min Jin Lee  November 15, 2017
    Excerpts

    Orhan Pamuk: Taking Photographs in Istanbul

    By Orhan Pamuk  November 14, 2017
    Essay

    I Was Already Leaving Florida When I Arrived

    By Lidia Yuknavitch  November 13, 2017
    Essay

    Alan Bennett: The Time I Saw T.S. Eliot on a Train Platform

    By Alan Bennett  November 10, 2017
    Excerpts

    Sometimes, It’s Okay to Be Mean

    By Myriam Gurba  November 10, 2017
    Excerpts

    Martinis=Mean. Wine=Wise. A New Yorker Critic’s Guide to Conversation

    By Anne Fadiman  November 9, 2017
    Feature

    The Autobiography of Gucci Mane Sets a New High for the Celebrity Memoir

    By Katie Fustich  November 8, 2017
    Essay

    Finding Solace in Bookstores, in the Face of Cancer

    By Mary Ladd  November 7, 2017
    Essay

    The Food Writer Who Lost Her Sense of Smell

    By Sofia Perez  November 2, 2017
    Essay

    Chasing the Brontë Sisters from South India to the Yorkshire Moors

    By Deepa Bhasthi  November 2, 2017
    Essay

    To the Lady Who Mistook Me for the Help at the National Book Awards

    By Patrick Rosal  November 1, 2017
    Essay

    Discovering My Family’s Murderous Nazi Past

    By Sacha Batthyany  November 1, 2017
    Essay

    The Day My VW Beetle Morphed Into a Hot Rod

    By David Searcy  October 31, 2017
    Essay

    Learning the Hard Way That Writing a Book is Not Like Writing for TV

    By Evany Rosen  October 25, 2017
    Essay

    Megan Mayhew Bergman Experiences the Tao of Sunbathing

    By Megan Mayhew Bergman  October 23, 2017
    Essay

    The Dirty Secret of War: It Can Be As Compelling As It Is Ugly

    By Philip Caputo  October 20, 2017
    Excerpts

    When the French Invaded Hanoi, My Brothers Stayed Behind

    By Mai Elliott  October 20, 2017
    Essay

    A Stroke Made My Mother a Poet, I Merely Transcribed

    By Marius Chivu  October 19, 2017
    Essay

    Falling in Love Over Email: Anatomy of a Digital Courtship

    By Peter Bognanni  October 18, 2017
    Essay

    The Painting That Changed My Life

    By Kerry Folan  October 18, 2017
    Essay

    Lidia Yuknavitch: The Time I Snuck Into Ken Kesey’s Fiction Class

    By Lidia Yuknavitch  October 17, 2017
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