• Memoir

    Mirrors

    On Self-Reflection, Stories, and and What Mirrors Really Tell Us

    By Sarah Fawn Montgomery  November 10, 2022
    The Writing Life

    “Let That Dream Die.“ On Watching Tennis and (Actually) Becoming the Best Writer You Can Be

    By Veronica Roth  November 9, 2022
    TV

    Hugh Bonneville on His Illustrious Downton Abbey Castmate, Maggie Smith

    By Hugh Bonneville  November 9, 2022
    The Literary Salon

    Ben Aitken Reads from His New Memoir The Marmalade Diaries

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  November 9, 2022
    Philosophy

    How Stoicism Guided Me Through Opening a Small Town Bookstore in the Midst of the Pandemic

    By Ryan Holiday  November 7, 2022
    When I’m Not Writing

    “I Fight to Learn What it Means to Feel Calm.” Laura van den Berg on Boxing, Vulnerability, and Process

    By Laura van den Berg  November 7, 2022
    Revision

    Accidental Craft: On Discovering the Right Way (For Me) to Revise

    By Sorayya Khan  November 7, 2022
    What to Watch

    What’s The Crown Without a Living Queen Elizabeth II?

    By Matthew Redmond  November 7, 2022
    Memoir

    Qian Julie Wang on Zou Or, The Act of Leaving

    By Qian Julie Wang  November 7, 2022
    Community

    Lessons on Community From a Father Reading Dostoyevsky

    By Chris Dombrowski  November 7, 2022
    Veterans

    Theaters of War: When Performance Becomes Deadly

    By Lyle Jeremy Rubin  November 4, 2022
    Abortion

    On a Desperate Journey to Ciudad Juárez—and the Costly, Dangerous Reality of Abortion in 1968

    By Becca Andrews  November 4, 2022
    Recipes

    Is Revenge-Baking a Thing?

    By Becca Rea-Tucker  November 4, 2022
    Writing

    Serena Burdick on Her Novel’s Seventeen-Year Journey to Publication

    By Serena Burdick  November 4, 2022
    The Literary Life

    Dani Shapiro on the Fifteen Year Journey of Signal Fires

    By The Literary Life  November 4, 2022
    Exile

    How to Go Home: On Resisting a Very English Hero’s Journey

    By Ellie Robins  November 3, 2022
    Mental health

    Navigating Life with Misophonia: “For the Past Ten Years I Have Lived Inside Music.”

    By Sussie Anie  November 3, 2022
    Coming of Age

    I’ve Got It! Judy Blume Tells the Story of Her First Period

    By Judy Blume  November 2, 2022
    Photography

    Accumulated Memory: Ken Burns on the Intersection of Individual Intimacy and National Narrative

    By Ken Burns  November 2, 2022
    Texting

    “WE NEED MORE OINTMENT.” The Exquisite Banality of Married Texting

    By Jason Gay  November 2, 2022
    Abortion

    How to Tell a True Abortion Story

    By Nicole Walker  November 2, 2022
    So Many Damn Books

    Kate Beaton on the Grueling Task of Writing a Picture Book and Her New Memoir

    By So Many Damn Books  November 1, 2022
    Writing Spaces

    A Shed of One’s Own: Louise Kennedy on the Blissful Semi-Solitude of Her Backyard Writing Space

    By Louise Kennedy  November 1, 2022
    In Memoriam

    Master of Ceremonies: Melissa Holbrook Pierson Remembers Peter Schjeldahl

    By Melissa Holbrook Pierson  November 1, 2022
    Tourism

    Where Cocktail Hour Never Ends: On Jamaica, Tourism, and the Remnants of Empire

    By Dionne Irving  November 1, 2022
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