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

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

By Walker Caplan | August 4, 2021

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

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

Shugri Said Salh on the Transition from Her Nomadic Somali Childhood to Parenthood in California

By Shugri Said Salh | August 4, 2021

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

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

James Tate Hill on the Way We Listen to Contemporary Memoir

By James Tate Hill | August 3, 2021

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

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

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi Finds Lessons in History, From Tehran to Orange County

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi | August 3, 2021

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

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

Daniel Sherrell Navigates Love and Desperation in the Time of Climate Change

By Daniel Sherrell | August 3, 2021

Ruth Wariner Reads an Excerpt From <em>The Sound of Gravel</em>

Ruth Wariner Reads an Excerpt From The Sound of Gravel

On Storybound, Our Radio-Theater Podcast

By Storybound | August 3, 2021

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

By Thomas Dai | August 2, 2021

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

By Rodrigo Garcia | August 2, 2021

In Praise of Racist Books: Notes of an Immigrant Reader

By Louis Chude-Sokei | August 2, 2021

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

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

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | August 2, 2021

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

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

“I decided that because girl wasn’t a word for me, horse couldn’t be, either.”

By Alex Marzano-Lesnevich | July 29, 2021

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

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

The American Beauty Actor on the Power of Music and the Challenges of Belonging

By Mena Suvari | July 29, 2021

Ursula Burns on the Dangers of Exceptionalism

Ursula Burns on the Dangers of Exceptionalism

This Week from Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | July 29, 2021

In America, Language Silences You: On Trusting Words When They Fail, Betray, And Redeem

In America, Language Silences You: On Trusting Words When They Fail, Betray, And Redeem

Amanda Choo Quan Considers the Effects of Anxiety and Racism on the Writing Life

By Amanda Choo Quan | July 28, 2021

Inside the Career of Tuesday Weld, a Hollywood “Poet of Failure”

Inside the Career of Tuesday Weld, a Hollywood “Poet of Failure”

Matthew Specktor on the Woman Behind the Movie Star

By Matthew Specktor | July 28, 2021

Read the Winners of This Year’s Insider Prize, Selected by Mitchell S. Jackson

Read the Winners of This Year’s Insider Prize, Selected by Mitchell S. Jackson

American Short Fiction’s 2021 Contest for Incarcerated Writers in Texas

By American Short Fiction | July 28, 2021

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