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James Patterson Remembers the Time James Baldwin Fought Norman Mailer

James Patterson Remembers the Time James Baldwin Fought Norman Mailer

“They were arguing loudly, fists clenched, looking like they were ready to rumble.”

By James Patterson | June 8, 2022

Summer Vacations Are a 19th-Century Invention of the Rich

Summer Vacations Are a 19th-Century Invention of the Rich

Charles McGrath on the Ritualizing of Idleness

By Charles McGrath | June 8, 2022

Reyna Grande on Giving Her Kids the Childhood She Never Had

Reyna Grande on Giving Her Kids the Childhood She Never Had

Reconsidering the Dream of Sweet Valley High

By Reyna Grande | June 7, 2022

Keith Gessen Explores the Often-Disturbing Biographies of Great Children's Book Authors

Keith Gessen Explores the Often-Disturbing Biographies of Great Children's Book Authors

And He Has Some Bad News About Frances

By Keith Gessen | June 7, 2022

On Reading My Memoir to My Father

On Reading My Memoir to My Father

Séamas O'Reilly Pays Tribute to the Man Who Taught Him to Love Books

By Séamas O'Reilly | June 7, 2022

How to Write a Memoir About Personal Catastrophe Without Sounding Pitiful

How to Write a Memoir About Personal Catastrophe Without Sounding Pitiful

Abi Morgan in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 7, 2022

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By Heather O'Neill | June 6, 2022

Questioning the Borders of Nonfiction to Tell the Story of an Exceptional Life

By Levi Vonk | June 6, 2022

Tiny Beautiful Things: Why Deborah Way Launched a Mini-Memoir Project on Instagram

Tiny Beautiful Things: Why Deborah Way Launched a Mini-Memoir Project on Instagram

How an Obsession with Mementos Grew Into a Storytelling Community

By Deborah Way | June 6, 2022

Madhushree Ghosh: How Cooking Helped Me Build a New Home

Madhushree Ghosh: How Cooking Helped Me Build a New Home

“What am I choosing to remember?”

By Madhushree Ghosh | June 6, 2022

26 Notes on Memory and Forgetting

26 Notes on Memory and Forgetting

Tedi López Mills: “Maybe I remember when I imagine because I’m already starting to forget.”

By Tedi López Mills and Robin Myers | June 3, 2022

In the Opioid Epidemic Prosecutions Don’t Always Help Victims

In the Opioid Epidemic Prosecutions Don’t Always Help Victims

Former Federal Prosecutor Valena Beety on the War on Drugs

By Valena Beety | June 2, 2022

Julia Serano on the Ramifications of “Sissy-Shaming” for Kids of All Genders

Julia Serano on the Ramifications of “Sissy-Shaming” for Kids of All Genders

The Problem with Enforced Emotional Ignorance

By Julia Serano | June 2, 2022

Bill McKibben Reckons with the Glorified American History of His Boyhood

Bill McKibben Reckons with the Glorified American History of His Boyhood

On the Myths and Truths of the American Revolution

By Bill McKibben | June 1, 2022

Kim Stanley Robinson on Waking Up in the High Sierra

Kim Stanley Robinson on Waking Up in the High Sierra

A Love Letter to Western Mornings

By Kim Stanley Robinson | May 31, 2022

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