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Larissa Pham on Allowing Memory to Shape a Memoir

Larissa Pham on Allowing Memory to Shape a Memoir

"I don’t believe life is narrative."

By Larissa Pham | August 6, 2021

Compartmentalizing and Coping: Life as an Emergency Doctor During COVID

Compartmentalizing and Coping: Life as an Emergency Doctor During COVID

Robert Meyer, MD Reflects on the Anxieties of His Occupation in the Last Year

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

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

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

Deborah Copaken on the Fiery Exit Interview That Changed NBC's Work Culture

By Deborah Copaken | August 5, 2021

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

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

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi | August 3, 2021

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

By Daniel Sherrell | August 3, 2021

Ruth Wariner Reads an Excerpt From The Sound of Gravel

By Storybound | August 3, 2021

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

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

Thomas Dai on the Author's Butterfly-Hunting Excursions and His Own Relationship to the Road and American Identity

By Thomas Dai | August 2, 2021

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

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

Rodrigo Garcia Shares Formative Memories of His Mother and Father

By Rodrigo Garcia | August 2, 2021

In Praise of Racist Books: Notes of an Immigrant Reader

In Praise of Racist Books: Notes of an Immigrant Reader

Louis Chude-Sokei on the Books that Shaped His Literary Curiosity

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

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