• Memoir

    Essay

    An Open Letter to My Dog: I Couldn’t Have Written This Without You

    By Cinelle Barnes  April 17, 2018
    Essay

     We’ll Always Have Paris: My Time in Texas with Sam Shepard’s Notebooks

    By Madelaine Lucas  April 12, 2018
    News and Culture

    Music and My Father

    By Gabrielle Bellot  April 10, 2018
    Excerpts

    On Blood, Birth, and the Talismanic Power of Red Lipstick

    By Jessica Friedmann  April 10, 2018
    Excerpts

    Gay, Muslim, Refugee: On Making a Life in Trump’s America

    By Aleksandar Hemon  April 9, 2018
    Essay

    Samantha Irby: Why I’d Rather Live Alone

    By Samantha Irby  April 5, 2018
    Excerpts

    In the Endless Sameness of Prison, Writing Kept Me Human

    By Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o  March 28, 2018
    Essay

    How Teaching a Writing Class Helped Me Pay Off a Mob Boss

    By Sandra Hochman  March 28, 2018
    Essay

    The Time I Drank with Borges in a Scottish Pub

    By Jay Parini  March 20, 2018
    Essay

    Gambling with My Grandmother: From the Philippines to America

    By Jen Palmares Meadows  March 16, 2018
    Excerpts

    ‘We Need You to Be a Zealot.’ My Life in Scientology

    By Sands Hall  March 15, 2018
    Excerpts

    What It’s Like to Travel With a Guide Dog

    By Stephen Kuusisto  March 15, 2018
    Essay

    Esmé Weijun Wang Finds Her Way Back to a Beloved Childhood Dish

    By Esmé Weijun Wang  March 13, 2018
    Excerpts

    How I Became a Jane Austen Superfan

    By Ted Scheinman  March 8, 2018
    Essay

    The Transcendent Humanity of the Worst Cruise I Have Ever Taken

    By Ramona Ausubel  March 6, 2018
    Essay

    Raising a Transgender Child in the Age of Trump

    By Laurie Frankel  March 2, 2018
    Essay

    Growing Up with Classic Russian Literature in Rural South India

    By Deepa Bhasthi  February 28, 2018
    Excerpts

    John Banville: On the Undreamed Lives of My Parents

    By John Banville  February 27, 2018
    Excerpts

    How the Irish Teach Us to Die

    By Kevin Toolis  February 27, 2018
    Essay

    When True Love Runs Into Real Estate Anxiety

    By Laura Powell  February 26, 2018
    Essay

    Men of a Certain Age: On Sex, Privacy, and Pornography

    By Saskia Vogel  February 23, 2018
    Essay

    How My Research Trip Turned into a Homecoming

    By Tina LeCount Myers  February 22, 2018
    Excerpts

    Getting Through School Let Me Talk About Pain

    By Terese Marie Mailhot  February 21, 2018
    Profile

    What If Kafka Was the Best Relationship of My Twenties?

    By Dylan Foley  February 21, 2018
    Essay

    On Being the Oldest Guy at Skate Camp

    By Cheston Knapp  February 20, 2018
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