Memoir

Music

Sinéad O’Connor on Discovering Van Morrison in Her Lonely Early Days in London

“There’ll be a lifetime of goodbyes. I can’t have a problem with that.”

 
By Sinéad O'Connor  June 14, 2021
In Memoriam

Remembering Mark Baumer: Barefoot Walker, Poet, Climate Activist, Friend

By Claire Donato  June 10, 2021
Queer Identity

How Audre Lorde’s Genre-Blurring Zami Spoke My Truth Into Existence

By Jamika Ajalon  June 10, 2021
Childhood

Finding Home by the Water, from the Mekong Delta to Coney Island

By Ly Tran  June 10, 2021
Personal Space

Personal Space: Anjali Enjeti on Reckoning with Complicity, Shame, and Power Dynamics in Memoir

By The Virtual Book Channel  June 10, 2021
Reading Lists

Reading Books About… People Reading Books?

By Alice Jolly  June 10, 2021
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Aging

The Unexpected Pleasures of Being a Late Bloomer, in Motherhood and Writing

By E.J. Levy  June 10, 2021
Book Dreams

When a Thriller Feels More Personal to Write Than Your Own Memoir

By Book Dreams  June 10, 2021
Insomnia

Chasing a Waking Life: On the Pains of Being an Insomniac

By Aminatta Forna  June 9, 2021
Childhood

Up in Smoke: On Death, Identity, and a Flammable Childhood in Nigeria

Akwaeke Emezi Considers Growing Up in the Town of Aba and the Darkness That Dwells in Memory

By Akwaeke Emezi  June 14, 2021
Prison memoir

The Struggle with Mental Health Behind Bars

By Quntos KunQuest  June 8, 2021
Travel

Traversing the Most Dangerous Region of the Coast of Norway (On a Cruise Ship)

By Chaney Kwak  June 8, 2021
Food Critics

Audacity, Elegance, and the Vulgarity of Garlic: On My Dinner with Giorgio Armani

By Alexander Lobrano  June 7, 2021
Blindness

On the Cultural Figure—and Lived Reality—of the Blind Writer

M. Leona Godin Considers Homer, Borges, and the Large Gap Between Metaphorical and Practical

By M. Leona Godin  June 7, 2021
The Longest Year: 2020+

Resistance and Survival: Portraits of Black and Brown America, c. 2020

By Mitchell S. Jackson and Darryl DeAngelo Terrell  June 4, 2021
Journalism

The Existential Crisis Facing Newspapers Has Silenced Some of America’s Most Distressed Areas

By Alan Maimon  June 4, 2021
Mothers and Daughters

Together As We Burn: On a Complicated Maternal Bond and Intergenerational Love

By Ashley C. Ford  June 3, 2021
The Hub

Watch a young Flannery O’Connor teaching her chicken to walk backwards.

By Walker Caplan  June 2, 2021
Pop Culture

How Mean Girls Taught Me to Fear Lesbians and Love Pink

By Grace Perry  June 2, 2021
Punk Rock

“Filthy, Funny, and Flamboyant.” How the New York of the ‘80s Spawned the Lunachicks

By The Lunachicks with Jeanne Fury  June 2, 2021
Addiction

How I Kicked Insomnia and Addiction with Help from Marilyn Monroe

By Heidi Seaborn  June 2, 2021
Otherppl

Melissa Febos on the Long-Term Effects of Having a Stalker

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  June 2, 2021
The Hub

Alan Cumming’s new memoir, set to publish in October, focuses on his life in Hollywood.

By Walker Caplan  June 1, 2021
Religion

When Will the Church Have Its Racial Reckoning?

By Monica West  May 28, 2021
Reading Lists

“My Life is Quite Gay.” A Queer Memoir Reading List

By John Paul Brammer  June 8, 2021
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