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Growing Up Inside a John Updike Novel

Growing Up Inside a John Updike Novel

Thomas E. Ricks on the Shadows at the Edge of Updike's Work

By Thomas E. Ricks | March 18, 2019

Money, Guilt, and Returning to Hong Kong to Care for My Mother

Money, Guilt, and Returning to Hong Kong to Care for My Mother

Xu Xi on the Changing Attitudes to Filial Piety

By Xu Xi | March 18, 2019

Samuel Beckett, Thrower of Shade

Samuel Beckett, Thrower of Shade

From Frederic Pajak's Illustrated Memoir, Uncertain Manifesto

By Frederic Pajak | March 18, 2019

The Time I Crashed at Nora Ephron's Apartment

The Time I Crashed at Nora Ephron's Apartment

Michael Mewshaw Recalls the Literary Jetset of the 1980s

By Michael Mewshaw | March 15, 2019

When the Eeriness of Trauma Can Only Be Understood Through Fiction

When the Eeriness of Trauma Can Only Be Understood Through Fiction

How Kelly Link Helped Me See Things a Little More Clearly

By Kate Hope Day | March 12, 2019

A Letter to My Daughter Upon Learning the Results of an Ancestry Test

A Letter to My Daughter Upon Learning the Results of an Ancestry Test

David Chariandy: "We Must Remain Close to the Women Who Dance"

By David Chariandy | March 11, 2019

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Frederic Tuten: On My Youthful Dreams of the Parisian Writer's Life

By Frederic Tuten | March 8, 2019

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Even After Writing My Novel, Shame Kept Me From Sharing My Story

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Of Love, Madness, and Death: Notes Toward a Literary Autobiography

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Amparo Davila, at 90, Begins to Consider the Life That Was

By Amparo Dávila | March 4, 2019

Memories of an Atomic Childhood in Appalachia

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To Sit Beside Boris Fishman on an Airplane is to Behold the Riches of Russian Cooking

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It Took Margaret Verble Twenty Years to Write Her Novel and It Was Worth It

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Ayelet Tsabari: How Food Connects Us to Home

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On the Power of Family Recipes

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Notes on an Italian Getaway in Australia

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The View from a Transcontinental Journey on the Indian Pacific

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Why I Was Finally Able to Write About My Husband

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On the Complicated Choices of Memoir Writing

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