• Memoir

    Essay

    Into a Crueler America: Two Border Crossings, 30 Years Apart

    By Reyna Grande  January 14, 2019
    Essay

    How I Found Love One Literary Event at a Time

    By Tajja Isen  January 14, 2019
    Essay

    On the Excavation of My Desk

    By David L. Ulin  January 10, 2019
    Excerpts

    Gabriel García Márquez Remembers His Dearest Friend, Julio Cortázar

    By Gabriel García Márquez  January 8, 2019
    Essay

    Honor Moore: On Finishing the Book and Conjuring My Mother

    By Honor Moore  January 3, 2019
    Excerpts

    Scholastique Mukasonga on the Power and Privilege in a Loaf of Bread

    By Scholastique Mukasonga  December 18, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Novelist Who Works as a “Seasonal Associate” at Amazon

    By Heike Geissler  December 10, 2018
    What to Read

    The Coming-of-Age Memoirs That Helped Me Write About My Life

    By Christine S. O'Brien  December 7, 2018
    Excerpts

    A Prose Poem by Chelene Knight

    By Chelene Knight  December 3, 2018
    Excerpts

    It’s Taken 40 Years For Me to Write About the Day My Brother Died

    By Richard Beard  November 26, 2018
    Excerpts

    Glimpses of a Transformative Primary School in Johannesburg

    By Malaika wa Azania  November 19, 2018
    Excerpts

    What It’s Like to Be Rejected by Your Religious Family

    By Jessica Wilbanks  November 16, 2018
    Excerpts

    My Parents’ Wedding Was Arranged. I Wanted Something Different.

    By Huda Al-Marashi  November 15, 2018
    Excerpts

    Adventures in Insomnia: Sleep Diets, Weird Dreams, and the Singularity

    By Marina Benjamin  November 14, 2018
    In Memoriam

    My Son, Stan Lee’s Pen Pal

    By Rion Amilcar Scott  November 14, 2018
    Excerpts

    Twenty-Three Things About W.H. Auden

    By Bill Berkson  November 5, 2018
    Excerpts

    Peter Sagal: I Got Divorced. And Then I Ran a Mile in My Underwear.

    By Peter Sagal  November 2, 2018
    Excerpts

    Patrick Modiano: To Flee a Parisian Crime Scene

    By Patrick Modiano  October 25, 2018
    Essay

    The Other South of France: My Year(s) in the Pyrenees

    By Laurence de Looze  October 22, 2018
    Essay

    How I Came to Interview Donald Trump About Tiger Woods

    By Meakin Armstrong  October 15, 2018
    Essay

    On the Adventuresome Dane Who Drove Across North Africa in the 1930s

    By André Naffis-Sahely  October 12, 2018
    Design

    Reckoning with What It Means to Be German

    By Nora Krug  October 11, 2018
    Design

    When a Writer Wants You and Only You to Design Their Cover

    By Alison Forner  October 10, 2018
    Essay

    My Disease is Not a Metaphor

    By Maggie Levantovskaya  October 2, 2018
    Essay

    My Return to Tehran: On Family, Restlessness, and Revolution

    By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi  September 27, 2018
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