• Memoir

    Personal Essay

    Finding Photos of My Grandfather in a Japanese Internment Camp

    By Brandon Shimoda  July 30, 2019
    Mothers

    The Books That Bear the Weight
    of the Living

    By Angelique Stevens  July 30, 2019
    Poets

    Tony Hoagland Was a Poet
    of Heart and Humor

    By Mike Schneider  July 29, 2019
    Coming out

    My Coming Out is a Story of Forgiveness

    By William Dameron  July 25, 2019
    Correspondence

    On My 42-Year Correspondence with W.S. Merwin

    By Howard Norman  July 24, 2019
    Gay Culture

    Like Writing, Cruising is an Exercise in Introspection and Perseverance

    By Alex Espinoza  July 22, 2019
    Regret

    Richard Russo: On the Moral
    Power of Regret

    By Richard Russo  July 18, 2019
    Literary History

    Mukoma Wa Ngugi: On the Poem That Made Me Fall in Love with Words

    By Mukoma Wa Ngugi  July 17, 2019
    Restaurants

    Kevin Alexander on the Funny, Unflinching, Cooking Memoirs You Need to Read

    By Kevin Alexander  July 16, 2019
    Capitalism

    A Laid-Off Journalist Takes a Job in an Amazon Warehouse

    By Emily Guendelsberger  July 16, 2019
    Chef memoir

    A Chef Traces the Start of Her Career to Her Mother’s Childhood

    By Iliana Regan  July 15, 2019
    Immigration stories

    A Firsthand Account of a 10-Year-Old Girl Fleeing Guatemala for Mexico

    By Claudia D. Hernández  July 10, 2019
    Youth

    On Falling for a Statue of Hermes in Athens

    By Grant Ginder  July 9, 2019
    Fishing

    My White Whale Was a 50-Pound Fish in Martha’s Vineyard

    By Janet Messineo  July 2, 2019
    Prison memoir

    The Torture of Being Trapped in an Australian Refugee Detention Center

    By Behrouz Boochani  June 28, 2019
    War

    Coming to the Realization That I Might Have PTSD

    By Ryan Leigh Dostie  June 28, 2019
    Meetings

    A Life-Changing Afternoon in Paris With Edmund White

    By Michael Carroll  June 28, 2019
    Literary History

    Paul Auster on the Time He Met Samuel Beckett

    By Paul Auster  June 27, 2019
    Feminism

    The Memoir I Never Wanted
    to Write

    By Chavisa Woods  June 26, 2019
    Dance

    Remembering Merce Cunningham and Radical Dance in Postwar Paris

    By Marianne Preger-Simon  June 26, 2019
    Overlooked Women

    On Being a Woman Who Loves Math

    By Catherine Chung  June 25, 2019
    News and Culture

    Annie Proulx on One of Her Favorite Short Stories

    By Annie Proulx  June 24, 2019
    News and Culture

    On Kathy Acker: A Desk, A Disease, An Accounting

    By Teresa Rose Carmody  June 19, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Jayson Greene on the Risks of Writing About Grief

    By Hannah Seidlitz  June 17, 2019
    Father's Day

    Fathers and Sons: The Things We Talk About to Avoid Talking to Each Other

    By Dean Kuipers  June 14, 2019
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