• Memoir

    Personal Essay

    A Monster No Matter What: On Being Unable to Grieve for My Father

    By Mako Yoshikawa  September 20, 2017
    Personal Essay

    A Lost Voice, Writer’s Block, and a New Life

    By Tova Mirvis  September 19, 2017
    Personal History

    Keeping House to Stave Off Grief

    By Kristen Martin  September 14, 2017
    Essay

    “He Comes for the Girls.” Philip Roth on Getting Kicked Out of Prague

    By Philip Roth  September 8, 2017
    Excerpts

    At Ellis Island, Imagining My Father’s Journey to America

    By Jane Lazarre  September 8, 2017
    Grief

    How Hard Do You Have to Crash Before You Talk About War?

    By Josephine Rowe  September 7, 2017
    Personal Essay

    A Difficult Balance: Am I a Writer or a Teacher?

    By Kyoko Mori  September 6, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Most Important Skill I Learned at Art School: How to Bullshit

    By Chelsea Martin  September 5, 2017
    Memoir

    How to Write a Book With Traumatic Brain Injury

    By Alice Anderson  September 1, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Can Your Best Friends Be Books?

    By Eve Fairbanks  August 29, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Secret E-Book That Changed My Life

    By Veronica Esposito  August 28, 2017
    Personal Essay

    When Werner Herzog Was My Dad: Of Post-Natal Visions and Other Wonders

    By Rachel Yoder  August 28, 2017
    Excerpts

    When Love is Almost Too Much To Bear

    By Heather Harpham  August 25, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Claire Messud: What I Learned From My Mother’s Library

    By Claire Messud  August 24, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Stories We’ll Tell: Getting Ready for a Total Eclipse of the Sun

    By Valerie Geary  August 21, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Jill Bialosky: The Time I Moved to New York City to Be a Poet

    By Jill Bialosky  August 17, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Searching for Stanley Kunitz’s Garden

    By Nell Boeschenstein  August 17, 2017
    Excerpts

    Playing the “Bigly” Game: On Poverty and Shame in America

    By Fiona Helmsley  August 16, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How Many Times Am I Touched in a Week? A Study

    By Stephanie Gangi  August 15, 2017
    Excerpts

    Beyond the High Blue Air

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 14, 2017
    Personal Essay

    To Live Like the Women of Viking Literature

    By Linnea Hartsuyker  August 10, 2017
    Excerpts

    John Berger Contemplates Life and Death at the Graveside of Mahmoud Darwish

    By John Berger  August 9, 2017
    Excerpts

    Naked Ladies and Weird, Invisible Men

    By Carina Chocano  August 8, 2017
    Excerpts

    From Squalor to Salon: The Amazing, Improbable Life of Emma Reyes

    By Daniel Alarcon  August 8, 2017
    Personal Essay

    I Used to Be a Writer—Then I Got Sick

    By Emma Smith-Stevens  August 3, 2017
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