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When the Government Tried (and Failed) to Come for a Japanese-American Journalist

When the Government Tried (and Failed) to Come for a Japanese-American Journalist

From the Late James Omura's Memoir of Internment and Repression

By James Matsumoto Omura and Arthur Hansen | August 29, 2018

Vanessa Hua: On the Banned Chinese Novel My Father Loved in His Youth

Vanessa Hua: On the Banned Chinese Novel My Father Loved in His Youth

Inside the Rollicking, Political World of The Water Margin

By Vanessa Hua | August 27, 2018

Adrienne Rich: It Is Hard to Write About My Own Mother

Adrienne Rich: It Is Hard to Write About My Own Mother

On the Deep Complexity of the Mother-Daughter Relationship

By Adrienne Rich | August 24, 2018

Claire Tomalin on Hiring (and Dating) a Young Martin Amis

Claire Tomalin on Hiring (and Dating) a Young Martin Amis

"I Knew Martin Could Take Over My Job Easily and Do it Very Well"

By Claire Tomalin | August 21, 2018

Yes, But What Does Karl Ove Knausgaard Think of Ice Cream?

Yes, But What Does Karl Ove Knausgaard Think of Ice Cream?

Next Up, Kittens and Cake

By Karl Ove Knausgaard | August 21, 2018

Making the Case for the Surreal Memoir

Making the Case for the Surreal Memoir

Pushing the Limits of Form, from Leonora Carrington to Wendy C. Ortiz

By Tobias Carroll | August 20, 2018

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Panashe Chigumadzi on the Woman Who Would Become Her Grandmother

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Writing a Memoir to Honor My Younger Self

Writing a Memoir to Honor My Younger Self

Casey Legler in Conversation with Hanya Yanagihara

By Literary Hub | July 30, 2018

When a Decades-Long Marriage Reaches a Breaking Point

When a Decades-Long Marriage Reaches a Breaking Point

Ann Pearlman on How Quickly a Life Can Crash

By Ann Pearlman | July 27, 2018

How I Wrote My Memoir, One Notecard at a Time

How I Wrote My Memoir, One Notecard at a Time

Or: How to Fit Your Trauma in a Recipe Box

By Melissa Stephenson | July 26, 2018

Collecting the Last, Lost Stories of WWII

Collecting the Last, Lost Stories of WWII

How a Family Remembers Itself in Darker Times

By Bart Van Es | July 26, 2018

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