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Memoir

Food Memoirs

Remembering the Egyptian Childhood I Never Had Through Its Culinary Traditions

Jasmin Attia on Homesickness and Having a Foot in More Than One Country

 
By Jasmin Attia  March 27, 2023
The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

Shelley Read on Place, Home, and Being a Fifth-Generation Coloradan

By The Literary Life  March 24, 2023
The Hub

Style icon Dolly Parton is telling the inside story of her fashion journey.

By Jonny Diamond  March 23, 2023
Cooking

How Two Pieces of Art 50 Years Apart Helped Me Hate Cooking a Little Bit Less

By Rosalynn Tyo  March 23, 2023
just the right book

Julia Samuel on Transgenerational Trauma and Family Well-Being

By Just the Right Book   March 23, 2023
Self-Care

After the Orgasmic Meditation Commune, I Had to Fix My Warped Thinking About Wellness

By Pooja Lakshmin  March 22, 2023
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Motherhood

Szilvia Molnar on Knowing When to Kill Your Darlings

By Szilvia Molnar  March 21, 2023
Representation

You Cannot Protect Your Children From Moana: How Not to Fight Fairy Tales

By Julia Langbein  March 21, 2023
Write-minded

Peggy Orenstein on the Self-improvement Memoir

By Write-minded   March 21, 2023
Keen On

Sabrina Orah Mark on Fairy Tales Designed to Wake Us Up

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On  March 24, 2023
Animals

On the Ethics of Preserving—and Cutting Short—the Life of a Pet

By Karen Fine  March 17, 2023
Sex

Is Gillian Anderson’s New Anthology of Women’s Sexual Fantasies Too Restrictive?

By Ellie Broughton  March 16, 2023
Grief

Ruminations on Love, Loss, and Art in Manhattan’s Unlikely Oasis of Peace

By Patrick Bringley  March 16, 2023
Homecooking

Why Authenticity Doesn’t Exist When It Comes To Food

Plus Ronnie Woo Shares a Recipe for Caramelized Hong-Kong Inspired Egg Tart

By Ronnie Woo  March 16, 2023
What to Watch

Skeletons in the Closet: On Mad Men and White America’s Willful Amnesia

By Kelly Shetron  March 15, 2023
In Memoriam

“This Boy is Going to Be a Writer.” Remembering Paul La Farge’s Childhood

By Wendy Walker  March 15, 2023
Jobs

On Millennial Writers and the Need for New Narratives of Work

By Bryony Lau  March 15, 2023
Autofiction

Appropriating Their Way Into Existence: How Black Writers Upended Autofiction

DK Nnuro on the Power of Mimicry and Subversion in the Black Literary Tradition

By DK Nnuro  March 15, 2023
Christianity

The Gift of Holy Tongues: On Being the Bass Player for Evangelism

By Matthew McNaught  March 15, 2023
Booksellers

An Unstandardized, Decentralized Carnival Fire: How Rare Books Are Cataloged

By Oliver Darkshire  March 14, 2023
Advice

“Everything is Riding on Your Author Photo.” Mary Childs on What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book

By Mary Childs  March 13, 2023
Family Stories

Our Family Secret Was Embedded in My Writing Before I Knew the Truth

Dani Shapiro on Revisiting Her Book on Craft a Decade On

By Dani Shapiro  March 13, 2023
First Draft

Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: Michelle Dowd Revisits Her Childhood in Forager

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 13, 2023
Plot

The Transcendence of the Clock: On Finding Clarity in Fiction and in Life

By Samuel Ligon  March 13, 2023
On Grief

God Bless the Grievers: Zoe Fishman on Reclaiming Widowhood Narratives

By Zoe Fishman  March 20, 2023
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