• Memoir

    Fathers and Sons

    Existential Dread and the Art
    of Boat-Building

    By Jonathan Gornall  May 8, 2019
    On Poetry

    On Elizabeth Bishop, Loss, and Coming Out After 20 Years in a Convent

    By Patricia M. Dwyer  May 7, 2019
    Fathers and Sons

    Birthing Calfs, Writing Novels: This is My Job Now

    By John Connell  May 7, 2019
    Writing Prompts

    The New Toolkit For Opening Up Your Memoir Writing

    By Eve Makis  May 6, 2019
    Fiction vs. Nonfiction

    On Not Writing About My Father, an Actual Mad Scientist

    By Erika Swyler  May 3, 2019
    Personal Essay

    My Husband, My Job, Myself: A Story of Three Marriages

    By Sejal Shah  May 3, 2019
    About the Body

    Who Do We Become When We Survive Our Pain?

    By Karen Havelin  May 2, 2019
    Race

    Growing Up At Ground Zero of American Apartheid

    By Greg Bottoms  May 1, 2019
    Parenting

    The Stories We Tell Our Sons
    About Becoming Men

    By Sophia Shalmiyev  April 29, 2019
    Anniversaries

    Amy Tan Reflects on 30 Years Since
    The Joy Luck Club

    By Amy Tan  April 23, 2019
    News and Culture

    An American Love Story With No Love

    By Kendra Allen  April 19, 2019
    News and Culture

    On the Decision to Make Patrick Bateman a Serial Killer

    By Bret Easton Ellis  April 16, 2019
    Social Media

    Ruth Reichl, Redeeming the Twitter Hellscape One Tweet at a Time

    By Jason Diamond  April 11, 2019
    Journeys

    From the Bronx to Rural Nigeria, How Kwame Onwuachi Became a Chef

    By Kwame Onwuachi  April 11, 2019
    The Holocaust

    My Jewish Grandfather, Handpicked by Hitler to Curate the Museum of Extinct Races?

    By Bram Presser  April 11, 2019
    News and Culture

    Russell Brand on Rehab, Recovery, and Choosing the Right Mentor

    By Russell Brand  April 9, 2019
    Essay

    A Brief History of the Women
    Who Disappeared

    By Dorothy Bendel  April 9, 2019
    News and Culture

    Chris Rush on Confronting the Ghosts of His Past

    By Chris Rush  April 8, 2019
    Depression

    The Misunderstood Consequences of Electroconvulsive Therapy

    By Mary Cregan  April 8, 2019
    News and Culture

    Walking the Longest Path in England, Death on the Horizon

    By Raynor Winn  April 5, 2019
    Memoir

    Valerie Jarrett on 26-Year-Old Michelle Obama’s Unforgettable Job Interview

    By Valerie Jarrett  April 4, 2019
    News and Culture

    Free to Be… You and Me (And Childfree)

    By Helen Ellis  April 4, 2019
    Family Stories

    Aging in America: Cherríe Moraga on Her Mother’s Struggles

    By Cherríe Moraga  April 3, 2019
    Memoir

    Why Am I So Embarrassed About
    Hiring a Nanny?

    By Megan Stack  April 3, 2019
    Fathers and Sons

    Édouard Louis: On the Youth My
    Father Never Really Had

    By Edouard Louis  April 2, 2019
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