Memoir

Criticism

Rituals of Housekeeping, Memories of Home: On Marilynne Robinson’s
First Novel

Madelaine Lucas Explores the Tensions Between Creative Work and Domestic Life

 
By Madelaine Lucas  October 29, 2020
Work Diaries

The Weird Underbelly of Tech Writing in Silicon Valley

By Lulu Dewey  October 29, 2020
Reproductive Rights

Monday Night Horror: Watching Rosemary’s Baby During the Swearing-In of Amy Coney Barrett

By Eliza Smith  October 28, 2020
Poets

Driving by the Lake With John Ashbery

By Douglas Crase  October 28, 2020
Best Reviewed Books of the Month

The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, October Edition

By Book Marks  October 28, 2020
On Love

Tommy Orange on Vulnerability and Familial Love

By Tommy Orange  October 26, 2020
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Memoir

Alisson Wood on the Myth of Catharsis and Reclaiming One’s Power

By Luna Adler  October 26, 2020
Music

On the Event That Brought Me Back to Writing After 30 Years

By Robert Duncan  October 23, 2020
Bookable

Mira Jacob, Kiese Laymon, and Saeed Jones on the Art of Memoir

By Bookable   October 23, 2020
Poetry

The Best Dog Poems Reveal the Good and the Mischievous in Our Canine Friends

Duncan Wu Goes Deep on a Blessed Genre

By Duncan Wu  October 29, 2020
The Antibody Reading Series

Antibody: Starring Angela Chen, Athena Dixon, and Melissa Faliveno

By The Antibody Reading Series  October 22, 2020
The Writing Life

Against the Muse Myth: On Motherhood and the Writing Life

By Molly Spencer  October 22, 2020
In Memoriam

After My Partner’s Death, I Discovered the Full Richness of His Poetry

By Megan Marshall  October 21, 2020
Gender and Politics

On Beauty, Sexual Violence, and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

Kanako Nishi: "Morrison neither consoled me as a victim, nor condemned me as the perpetrator."

By Kanako Nishi  October 20, 2020
Diaries

Ricardo Piglia’s Alter Ego on Epidemics of Violence in Argentina

By Ricardo Piglia  October 19, 2020
Poetry

The Soul-Excavating Work of Louise Glück

By Maureen N. McLane  October 16, 2020
On Death

A Letter From Dorothy Gallagher to Her Late Husband Ben Sonnenberg

By Dorothy Gallagher  October 15, 2020
Cuba

The Anticommunist Cuban Exiles Who Struck Terror in Miami

Magda Montiel Davis Remembers the Terror Years

By Magda Montiel Davis  October 15, 2020
Literary Readings

In Praise of Readings: A Brief History of the Book Events I Have Attended

By S. Kirk Walsh  October 14, 2020
Letters

A Young John Berryman Writes R.P. Blackmur About His Favorite Poets

By John Berryman  October 14, 2020
Birds

The Accidental Hobby: On the Books That Made Me a Birder

By Julia Zarankin  October 14, 2020
Soviet Union

Doing Time in the Dark Underbelly of Soviet Russia

From Julius Margolin's Memoir of Life in the Gulag

By Julius Margolin  October 13, 2020
Freeman's

Mariana Enriquez: On a French Love Affair and a Man Lost to Time

By Mariana Enriquez  October 13, 2020
On Craft

Wicked Wouldn’t Have Been What It Is If I Hadn’t Written the Novel by Hand

By Gregory Maguire  October 13, 2020
Trauma

The Many Ways in Which We Lost
Our Grandfather

By K-Ming Chang  October 23, 2020
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