• Memoir

    Animals

    A Bad Marriage, a Good Dog, and the Beginning of a Long Career

    By Ben Moon  January 24, 2020
    Nigerian Culture

    Wole Soyinka on Yoruba Weddings, Nigerian Movies, and Making Traditions New

    By Wole Soyinka  January 23, 2020
    Peace

    Striving for a Life of Normality in the Occupied West Bank

    By Ilana Hammerman  January 22, 2020
    Craft

    The Impossible Exercise of Interviewing Leonora Carrington

    By Claudia Dey  January 13, 2020
    But That's Another Story

    Gretchen Rubin on Virginia Woolf and the Cycles of Being a Writer

    By But That's Another Story  January 13, 2020
    Midlife

    15 Great Books That Speak to the Lives of Middle-Aged Women

    By Ada Calhoun  January 9, 2020
    Memoir

    What Can an Essayist Do in the Face of Massive Tragedy?

    By Sonya Bilocerkowycz  January 9, 2020
    Games

    What Lotería Means to Me—And My Writing

    By Yvette Benavides  January 8, 2020
    Memoir

    On the Strange Connection Between Brain Damage and Sex Drive

    By Sarah Vallance  January 6, 2020
    Emergence Magazine

    Eating Squirrels, Fearing Tigers, and Avoiding the Wrath of Spirits

    By Lisa Lee Herrick  December 20, 2019
    Friendship

    The Difficulty of Making Close Friends As You Get Older

    By Lane Moore  December 19, 2019
    Family

    When Your Family Figures Out You’re a Writer… and Loves You For It

    By Melissa M. Woods  December 19, 2019
    On Racism

    The Governor’s Race That Made George Wallace a Hardline Segregationist

    By Peggy Wallace Kennedy  December 19, 2019
    The Writing Life

    When You Find Out Someone Won a Prize Plagiarizing Your Work

    By Laleh Khadivi  December 18, 2019
    Tributes

    Finding Nuance and Much-Needed Relief in the Writing of Bharati Mukherjee

    By Mira Jacob  December 17, 2019
    The Writing Life

    Confessions of an Undercover Novelist

    By Abigail Hing Wen  December 16, 2019
    Young Adult

    Rereading the Master of
    ‘Dying Teen’ Lit

    By Katy Hershberger  December 12, 2019
    Teenagers

    On the Trail With the Vlogging
    Teens of America

    By Mark Kenyon  December 12, 2019
    Celebrities

    Body Language: On Kylie Minogue, Cancer, and Coming Back to Life

    By Oliver Reeson  December 11, 2019
    Diaries

    From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of
    Daily Life, c. 1979

    By Freeman's   December 9, 2019
    News and Culture

    Bohumil Hrabal, the Writing Machine Who Couldn’t Stop

    By Bohumil Hrabal  December 6, 2019
    Origin Stories

    How Journalism Made a
    Poet Out of Me

    By Gillian Conoley  December 6, 2019
    Diaries

    Reading the Unpublished Novel My Mother Took
    30 Years to Write

    By Caroline Scott  December 5, 2019
    Editors

    Lore Segal: A (Complicated) Love Letter to Editors

    By Lore Segal  December 2, 2019
    Reading Women

    Maaza Mengiste on Women Pushing to the Front Lines of Conflict

    By Reading Women  November 27, 2019
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