Memoir

American Classics

Jenny Zhang on Reading Little Women and Wanting to Be Like Jo March

Looking to Louisa May Alcott's Heroine for Inspiration

 
By Jenny Zhang  August 23, 2019
News and Culture

At the Crossroads Where Jamaica’s History and Fictions Meet

By Marcia Douglas  August 21, 2019
Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview

Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Memoir

By Literary Hub  August 20, 2019
Influences

Lessons From Nabokov: Finding Freedom in a Foreign Language

By Rajia Hassib  August 19, 2019
Sex

On the Love Hotels and Pleasure Quarters of Tokyo

By Anna Sherman  August 16, 2019
Memoir

For Sarah Broom, Coming-of-Age Means Learning to See

By Sarah M. Broom  August 15, 2019
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Journeys

Lyz Lenz: Finding a Creation Myth of One’s Own

By Lyz Lenz  August 14, 2019
Memoir

Sister Helen Prejean:
My Faith Began With a Fear of Leaving Home

By Helen Prejean  August 14, 2019
On Race

Ibram X. Kendi: How Racism Relies on Arbitrary Hierarchies

By Ibram X. Kendi  August 13, 2019
On Poetry

Why Do I Recite the Same Paul Celan Poem to All My Dates?

Or: Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game

By Sara Martin  August 22, 2019
Memoir

Gregory Orr on Rebuilding a Life When Nothing Makes Sense

By Gregory Orr  August 12, 2019
Language

The Bittersweet Feeling of Reconnecting with a Forgotten Language

By Susan Harlan  August 12, 2019
Travel

Loathing, Leaving and Coming to Love Albuquerque

By Sean Gandert  August 12, 2019
Superstition

Rick Moody on the Case of the Cursed Charles Manson Autograph

A Very Unlucky Postcard

By Rick Moody  August 8, 2019
Role Models

Loud, Lewd, Cheating, Smoking, Bisexual Degenerate: Marlene Dietrich, My Teenage Role Model

By Amanda Lee Koe  August 7, 2019
Cultural Criticism

Tope Folarin on the Misguided Urge to Carve the World Into Binaries

By Tope Folarin  August 7, 2019
War

Lessons From a Decade Reporting on Women During the Iraq War

By Hannah Allam  August 6, 2019
Marriage

The Painter’s Wife vs. The Poet’s Husband: Portrait of a Marriage

Shawna Lemay on the Indistinct Line Between Background and Foreground

By Shawna Lemay  August 6, 2019
Musings on Mothers

‘Someday, She Will Become Your Job.’ On Being My Mother’s Sole Caregiver

By Elissa Altman  August 5, 2019
Working Women

The Late-Capitalist Privileges of
Being an Art Monster

By Sarah Elaine Smith  July 31, 2019
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

Angelique Stevens on What Her Mom's Books Truly Meant

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
Memoir

The Road to Oliver Sacks’

By Lawrence Weschler  August 13, 2019
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