• Memoir

    Family Stories

    Chronicle of a Death Foretold: On War, Reincarnation, and the Changing Names of Myanmar

    By Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint  August 27, 2021
    New Books Network

    Matt Bell in Praise of Genre Agnosticism

    By New Books Network  August 27, 2021
    Criticism

    Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood

    By Ellen O'Connell Whittet  August 26, 2021
    Homes

    Deborah Levy: Finding a Room House of One’s Own

    By Deborah Levy  August 26, 2021
    Childhood

    Seeing Yourself in the Gaze of Others: On Disability and the Freedom of Youth

    By Jan Grue  August 26, 2021
    Mothers and Daughters

    The Beginning of the End: Who Do We Become in the Face of a Parent’s Death?

    By Kat Chow  August 25, 2021
    Fashion

    Why is Yves Saint Laurent’s “Sardine Dress” So Compelling?

    By Alison Hawthorne Deming  August 25, 2021
    Consciousness

    I Bark, Therefore I Am: Of Consciousness and Robot Dogs

    By Meghan O'Gieblyn  August 24, 2021
    Friendship

    The Long Unpredictable Life of Art: Francine Prose on Teaching James Alan McPherson to Incarcerated Students

    By Francine Prose  August 23, 2021
    Grief

    My Year of Mourning: Mapping the Full Cycle of the Loss of My Father

    By Merissa Nathan Gerson  August 23, 2021
    The Hub

    Read a previously unpublished Ursula K. Le Guin poem.

    By Walker Caplan  August 20, 2021
    Music

    Tales of Bohemian Living with The Lounge Lizards in 1979 New York

    By John Lurie  August 20, 2021
    The War on Terror

    Waiting in Darkness: My Time At Guantánamo

    By Mansoor Adayfi  August 20, 2021
    Fathers and Sons

    When the Dismissive Editor in Your Head Is Your Father

    By Jonathan Wells  August 20, 2021
    New Books Network

    Daniel Shapiro on Living Through a Spouse’s Terminal Illness

    By New Books Network  August 20, 2021
    Identity

    On Romanizing Korean Names and Writing Immigrant Stories in an Acquired Language

    By Yoon Choi  August 18, 2021
    Thresholds

    Deesha Philyaw on Leaving a Marriage While Writing a Short Story Collection

    By Thresholds   August 18, 2021
    Inspiration

    My Shadow Book: On Consciously—or Unconsciously—Immortalizing Ex-Partners in Literary Fiction

    By Andrew Palmer  August 17, 2021
    Theater

    Smoking Dope and Comparing Bad Reviews: Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine Discuss the Early Days of Their Collaboration

    By James Lapine  August 16, 2021
    Writing Life

    The Loneliness of the Full-Time Writer

    By Mike Gayle  August 13, 2021
    Rock N Roll

    Marc Ribot Makes the Case for Loud Music

    By Marc Ribot  August 13, 2021
    Immigration

    Aching for the American Dream: On Writing the Delicate Stories of Immigrant and Refugee Students

    By Elly Fishman  August 12, 2021
    Life in a Pandemic

    What The (Dixie) Chicks Meant to Me As a Teenager in Namibia

    By Rémy Ngamije  August 12, 2021
    In Memoriam

    How to Say Goodbye: Cecily Strong’s Eulogy For Her Beloved Cousin Owen

    By Cecily Strong  August 11, 2021
    Illness

    Women’s Memoirs at the Intersection of Chronic Illness, Mental Illness, Addiction, and Trauma

    By Eleanor Henderson  August 11, 2021
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