• Memoir

    On Writing

    Thereness on the Outer Banks: On Landscape in Literature

    By Angel Khoury  August 11, 2021
    Music

    What is This Music? “Drill Isn’t a Genre, It’s an Aesthetic Stance.”

    By Kit Mackintosh  August 11, 2021
    Teenagers

    Rebel Without a Real Cause: On Surviving the Social Hierarchies of High School

    By Via Bleidner  August 10, 2021
    The Writing Life

    The Painful Cost of the Writing Life

    By James Tate Hill  August 9, 2021
    Cancer

    On Reframing and Overcoming the Bodily Colonization of Stage 4 Cancer

    By Fred D’Aguiar  August 9, 2021
    Medicine

    The Medicine Memoirs That Every Aspiring Doctor Should Read

    By Robert Meyer, MD, and Dan Koeppel  August 9, 2021
    On Race

    What Visiting Plantations Taught Me About Historical Erasure

    By LaTanya McQueen  August 9, 2021
    Life in a Pandemic

    On Loss, Time, and Hope: My Year of Reading Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet

    By Sara Batkie  August 6, 2021
    Fathers and Daughters

    On the 26-Year Search for a Photo
    of My Father

    By Anna Qu  August 6, 2021
    Indigenous Peoples

    Cree Turned City Slicker: Returning to One’s Indigenous Heritage

    By Darrel J. McLeod  August 6, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Larissa Pham on Allowing Memory to Shape a Memoir

    By Larissa Pham  August 6, 2021
    Life in a Pandemic

    Compartmentalizing and Coping: Life as an Emergency Doctor During COVID

    By Robert Meyer, MD, and Dan Koeppel  August 5, 2021
    Healthcare

    What We Ask of Women When Affordable Health Insurance Is Tied to Full-Time Work

    By Deborah Copaken  August 5, 2021
    The Hub

    At 95 years young, Mel Brooks has finally written his memoir.

    By Walker Caplan  August 4, 2021
    Family Histories

    “I Am the Last Nomad.” What It Means to Be the Sole Keeper of a Family’s Stories

    By Shugri Said Salh  August 4, 2021
    Audiobooks

    My Life Story, Someone Else’s Voice: Why I Won’t Be Narrating My Memoir’s Audiobook

    By James Tate Hill  August 3, 2021
    Political Narratives

    Reading is a Political Encounter: On Violence, Language, and Selective Forgetting

    By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi  August 3, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    Letter to an Unborn Child: How Could I Bring You Into a Collapsing World?

    By Daniel Sherrell  August 3, 2021
    Storybound

    Ruth Wariner Reads an Excerpt From The Sound of Gravel

    By Storybound   August 3, 2021
    Road Trips

    Reinventing the Transformative Vision of America in Nabokov’s Cross-Country Chronicles

    By Thomas Dai  August 2, 2021
    Remembrances

    In Memory of My Parents, the Late Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha

    By Rodrigo Garcia  August 2, 2021
    Influences

    In Praise of Racist Books: Notes of an Immigrant Reader

    By Louis Chude-Sokei  August 2, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    Paradise Extended: Searching for My Great-Grandfather’s Grave in a Segregated Cemetery

    By Emergence Magazine  August 2, 2021
    Gender

    Alex Marzano-Lesnevich on Navigating the Starkly Gendered World of
    Horseback Riding

    By Alex Marzano-Lesnevich  July 29, 2021
    Coming of Age

    Love Affairs with Dead Composers: How Discovering Chopin Saved Mena Suvari

    By Mena Suvari  July 29, 2021
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