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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

Nobody Grows Up Wanting to Be a Missile-Maker

Nobody Grows Up Wanting to Be a Missile-Maker

How Our Family Came to Rely on War

By Karen Piper | August 15, 2018

One Wedding and a Funeral: How the Show Must Go On

One Wedding and a Funeral: How the Show Must Go On

Jeanne McCulloch on Finally Telling the Story of Her Father's Sudden Death

By Jeanne McCulloch | August 13, 2018

The Mindfuck: Returning to My Mennonite Homeland

The Mindfuck: Returning to My Mennonite Homeland

Rachel Yoder Goes Looking for... Rachel Yoder?

By Rachel Yoder | August 6, 2018

All About My Mother: Brandon Taylor on Love, Rage, and Family

All About My Mother: Brandon Taylor on Love, Rage, and Family

"My family was a series of hushed rages behind shut doors."

By Brandon Taylor | August 1, 2018

A History of Violence, From Frontier to Family

A History of Violence, From Frontier to Family

Paula Saunders Examines the Parallel Lines of History and Home

By Paula Saunders | July 31, 2018

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When a Decades-Long Marriage Reaches a Breaking Point

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

Teaching Yoga to My Captors in a Somali Pirate Villa

Teaching Yoga to My Captors in a Somali Pirate Villa

Michael Scott Moore on the Unlikely Benefits of a Little Daily Exercise

By Michael Scott Moore | July 25, 2018

Ibtihaj Muhammad: Finding a Home in the (White) World of Fencing

Ibtihaj Muhammad: Finding a Home in the (White) World of Fencing

"Everything around me seemed like a dream. Fencers that looked like me."

By Ibtihaj Muhammad | July 24, 2018

How Someone Else's Writer's Block Helped Me Write My Novel

How Someone Else's Writer's Block Helped Me Write My Novel

Robert Siegel on Getting the Details Just Right

By Robert Anthony Siegel | July 17, 2018

If Watergate Happened Now, It Would Stay a Secret

If Watergate Happened Now, It Would Stay a Secret

Sy Hersh Reveals a 1970s Washington That Seemed to Contain... Decency?

By Seymour M. Hersh | July 13, 2018

David Lynch on the Dark Side of Fifties Suburbia

David Lynch on the Dark Side of Fifties Suburbia

Bombs, Bullets, and Amputated Feet, Obviously

By David Lynch | July 10, 2018

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