• Memoir

    Gun violence

    After Apalachee: How America’s Gun Violence Epidemic Affects Us All

    By Deirdre Sugiuchi  September 24, 2024
    Family History

    Dreaming a Way Into the Past: On Unearthing Family Secrets in Taipei

    By Kim Liao  September 20, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Do NOT Want to Hang Out With My Fans: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  September 19, 2024
    Class

    Class Defectors vs. Working Class Traitors: What JD Vance Could Learn From Édouard Louis and Annie Ernaux

    By Ann Larson and Alissa Quart  September 18, 2024
    Motherhood

    Books Have No Gender: On Being a Small Town Librarian While Raising a Trans Child

    By Abi Maxwell  September 17, 2024
    Relationships

    Consent and Power: On Age Gaps in the Context of Queer Relationships

    By Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers  September 16, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Summers in New England: On Building a Community of Writers in Vermont

    By Nicholas Delbanco  September 16, 2024
    Revolts

    Turning Peasants Into Pinions: At a Child’s Grave in Mousehold Heath, Near Norwich

    By Ben Ehrenreich  September 13, 2024
    Immigrant Stories

    Language, Love and Visibility: Looking Back on an Immigrant Childhood

    By Daisy Hernández  September 13, 2024
    Blackness

    Loving White Boys While Black: On Beauty, Desire and Learning Self-Love

    By Lester Fabian Brathwaite  September 11, 2024
    African Diaspora

    Writing Between Worlds: Navigating My African and American Identities on the Page

    By Itoro Bassey  September 6, 2024
    On Teaching

    Toward a More Generous Pedagogy

    By Michele Herman  September 5, 2024
    Revolutionaries

    Korean Revolutionary Kim San on Moral Courage in the Face of Imperialist Violence

    By Kim San  September 5, 2024
    Gaza

    Don’t Look Back: Diary of a Life in Gaza

    By Nahil Mohana  September 4, 2024
    Mothers and Sons

    Nothing’s Ever Lost: Can AI Help Us Remember Our Departed Loved Ones?

    By Bryan VanDyke  September 4, 2024
    The Hub

    Seven literary(ish) Substacks you should subscribe to, stat.

    By Brittany Allen  August 30, 2024
    Gaza

    Intifada: On Being an Arabic Literature Professor in a Time of Genocide

    By Huda Fakhreddine  August 29, 2024
    On Love

    Schrödinger’s Catch: Applying the Rules of Quantum Physics to Queer Dating

    By Hannah Silva  August 28, 2024
    Gaza

    Escaping Genocide:
    Diary of a Life in Gaza

    By Nahil Mohana  August 27, 2024
    The Hub

    The spiciest takeaways from Tina Brown’s Vanity Fair Diaries.

    By Brittany Allen  August 27, 2024
    Appalachia

    Love in the Time of Hillbilly Elegy: On JD Vance’s Appalachian Grift

    By Justin B. Wymer  August 27, 2024
    Writing Trauma

    Rejecting Denial and Embracing Sorrow: On Writing the Story of a Husband’s Suicide

    By Alexandra Marshall  August 27, 2024
    Disability

    On the Dark History and Ongoing Ableist Legacy of the IQ Test

    By Pepper Stetler  August 23, 2024
    The Arctic

    A Kind of Arctic Madness: On Christiane Ritter’s Essential Memoir of the Far North

    By Colin Dickey  August 22, 2024
    On Grief

    Rosie Schaap on Losing Her Husband: “He Wanted to Go on Reading Because He Wanted to Go on Living.”

    By Rosie Schaap  August 21, 2024
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