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When Your Characters Live Inside Your Childhood Home

When Your Characters Live Inside Your Childhood Home

Sara Schaff on Revisiting the House She Grew Up in Through Fiction

By Sara Schaff | November 9, 2016

The Many Ways in Which the Heart Can Break

The Many Ways in Which the Heart Can Break

Aminatta Forna Visits the Museum of Broken Relationships

By Aminatta Forna | November 8, 2016

Fascism and Its Echoes, and the Othering of the Mentally Ill

Fascism and Its Echoes, and the Othering of the Mentally Ill

Holly Müller Examines Her Family's Past, to Understand the Present

By Holly Muller | November 7, 2016

The Novel My Wife Will Never Read

The Novel My Wife Will Never Read

Eugene Mirabelli on the Loss of his Wife and Renato After Alba

By Eugene Mirabelli | November 4, 2016

How I Helped Tell a Soldier's Story

How I Helped Tell a Soldier's Story

Jane Bernstein on Finding the Human Detail in a Memoir of War

By Jane Bernstein | October 28, 2016

Stop Stereotyping Lexicographers!

Stop Stereotyping Lexicographers!

John Simpson is an Editor of Dictionaries, and This Is His Story

By John Simpson | October 24, 2016

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Postcards to a Younger, Much Better Novelist

By Derek Palacio | October 17, 2016

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By Tara Bray Smith | October 17, 2016

How I Came to Love Bob Dylan

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By Patrick Ryan | October 14, 2016

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: The College Years

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: The College Years

"I was benefiting from a history that had come to negate my history"

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Growing Up Under the Russians

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Durs Grünbein Remembers a Childhood Under Occupation

By Durs Grünbein | October 12, 2016

Gloria Naylor: Mama Day, Mama Night, Bigger than Life

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Julia Alvarez Remembers the Author of The Women of Brewster Place

By Julia Alvarez | October 5, 2016

To Leave Your Mother Tongue is to Love It More

To Leave Your Mother Tongue is to Love It More

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By Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough | October 4, 2016

How My Grandfather Went From the Pulitzer Prize to Complete Obscurity

How My Grandfather Went From the Pulitzer Prize to Complete Obscurity

Tom Shroder on Growing Up in the Shadow of MacKinlay Kantor

By Tom Shroder | October 4, 2016

Finding a Forgotten Book On Surviving the Holocaust

Finding a Forgotten Book On Surviving the Holocaust

P.N. Singer on rescuing his grandfather's book from oblivion

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