• Memoir

    Reparations

    The Function of Shame
    in Literature

    By Marina Endicott  June 9, 2020
    War

    When We Hid From War in the Woods

    By Wayétu Moore  June 5, 2020
    Queer Lit

    The Deliverance of Douglas A. Martin’s Obsessive Desire

    By Hugh Ryan  June 3, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Unsent Letters from Lockdown: Emily Dickinson, Simone de Beauvoir, My Children

    By Kerstin Preiwuss  June 2, 2020
    Memoir

    Traveling the World to See What My Mother Couldn’t

    By Heather Scott Partington  June 1, 2020
    Gentrification

    My Detroit Novel Was Shelved Until the Millennials Came

    By Michael Zadoorian  May 29, 2020
    Transitions

    My First Night Out as a Woman

    By Meredith Talusan  May 26, 2020
    Historical Fiction

    Lauren Francis-Sharma:
    ‘What if the Facts Aren’t the Facts at All?’

    By Lauren Francis-Sharma  May 22, 2020
    Climate Change

    To the Child I Will Never Have

    By Jean-Baptiste Del Amo  May 22, 2020
    Immigration

    Travels with Barbie, From Tehran to Paris to New York

    By Porochista Khakpour  May 21, 2020
    Homelessness

    Mekkiayah Jacobs: New York City Needs to Care For Its Homeless

    By Mekkiayah Jacobs  May 20, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    How We Dream During
    a Pandemic

    By S. D. Chrostowska  May 19, 2020
    Language

    Slurs, Barbs, Digs: Robert Lopez on the Power of Single-Syllable Epithets

    By Robert Lopez  May 15, 2020
    The Cold War

    Jazz, Jeans, and Movie Stars: Joseph Brodsky on Glimpsing the West
    From Afar

    By Joseph Brodsky  May 14, 2020
    On Race

    On the Dreams of Latinx Women in a Pandemic Year

    By Felicia Zamora  May 14, 2020
    History of Science

    ‘Something Like My Own Obituary.’ Albert Einstein on Skepticism, Reason, and Truth

    By Albert Einstein  May 14, 2020
    Cancer

    On Embracing the Wig After a Cancer Diagnosis

    By Mary Ladd  May 14, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    A Girl’s Story

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 13, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Compassion and Care: Being an EMT During a Pandemic

    By Maya Alexandri  May 13, 2020
    Essayists

    Wayne Koestenbaum Considers Incense, Irish Spring, and, Yes, Some Other Smells

    By Wayne Koestenbaum  May 13, 2020
    Insomnia

    Samantha Harvey on Grappling with Insomnia and Reckoning With the Past

    By Samantha Harvey  May 13, 2020
    Baseball

    Rediscovering Lou Gehrig’s
    Lost Memoir

    By Alan D. Gaff  May 12, 2020
    Graphic Memoir

    An Illustrated Day at the Portland Book Festival

    By Leslie Stein  May 11, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Life in Lockdown with My Wonderful Brand New Family of Sea-Monkeys

    By Aimee Knight  May 8, 2020
    Mother's Day

    On First Hearing the Manic Rhythm of My Baby’s Heart

    By Gabriela Wiener  May 8, 2020
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