• Memoir

    The Quarantine Tapes

    Dwight Trible: “People Have Always Come Together with Music”

    By The Quarantine Tapes  October 2, 2020
    American Identity

    Many Rights, Few Responsibilities: What Does It Mean To Be an American Citizen?

    By Ru Freeman  October 1, 2020
    Cookbooks

    The Cookbook That Keeps Memories of a Maine Inn Alive

    By Jeanne Hodesh  October 1, 2020
    Illness

    On Malaria, Drought, and the Personal Consequences of Greed

    By Zoë Dutka  October 1, 2020
    New Books Network

    On Unspooling Generational Trauma in Black Father-Daughter Relationships

    By New Books Network  October 1, 2020
    History of Reading

    At Their Own Pace: Why Reading Is Not an Inherent Moral Good

    By Katherine Gaudet  September 30, 2020
    On Translation

    How an Italian Translator Found an Unlikely Home in the Utah Desert

    By Sara Reggiani  September 30, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Turn and Face the Strange: Darcey Steinke on Our New Life with Masks

    By Darcey Steinke  September 29, 2020
    Indigenous Voices

    On Wild Salmon, Hockey Dreams and Life in the Saanich Homeland

    By Sara Sinclair  September 29, 2020
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, September Edition

    By Book Marks  September 29, 2020
    Censorship

    Navigating Literary Censorship—and Worse—in Iran

    By Amir Ahmadi Arian  September 28, 2020
    Love and Romance

    Whoever Said Platonic Love Can’t Be Sexy? (Hint: Not Plato)

    By Michele Morano  September 28, 2020
    Inspiration

    The Book That Changed My Life: Giving Voice to the Divine, Inexplicable Ocean

    By Jock Serong  September 24, 2020
    Freeman's

    Snapshots Before the War: Saying Goodbye in 1944

    By Paul Hendrickson  September 23, 2020
    Thresholds

    Wayétu Moore on Using Storytelling to Find the Good Amid the Grim

    By Thresholds   September 23, 2020
    Letters Home

    The Fault Lines of Midwestern
    Racism Run Deep

    By Amaud Jamaul Johnson  September 22, 2020
    Love

    Life, Love, and Beowulf in the Deep South’s Most Literary Small Town

    By Lawrence Wells  September 22, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Writing a History of a Pandemic During a Pandemic

    By Jon Sternfeld  September 22, 2020
    Nazi Germany

    Indifference and Cruelty: What Made Nazi Germany Possible

    By Géraldine Schwarz  September 21, 2020
    Bookable

    Susan Burton on Saying the Thing She Was Most
    Scared to Say

    By Bookable   September 21, 2020
    Theater

    Character-Building: On Past Traumas and a Future for the Stage

    By Dan O'Brien  September 18, 2020
    Nature

    On Land Ethics and One of the Last Heaths in Northern Europe

    By Robert Michael Pyle  September 18, 2020
    Addiction

    Erica Barnett on the Books That Helped Her in Recovery

    By Erica Barnett  September 17, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Morgan Jerkins: Who Gets Displaced for the Sake of Tourism?

    By The Maris Review  September 17, 2020
    In Memoriam

    The Joy of Editing—and Knowing—Randall Kenan

    By Alane Salierno Mason  September 16, 2020
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