Memoir

Identity

To Be Pure: On Doubt, the Rules of Jewish Identity, and Questions of Familial Inheritance

By Deborah Feldman  September 2, 2021
Memory

What Would Marcel Proust’s Instagram Grid Look Like?

By Meredith Westgate  September 1, 2021
Family Stories

Too Close To Home: Writing a Book That Your Parents Won’t Read

By Michelle Jana Chan  August 27, 2021
Family Stories

Chronicle of a Death Foretold: On War, Reincarnation, and the Changing Names of Myanmar

By Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint  August 27, 2021
New Books Network

Matt Bell in Praise of Genre Agnosticism

By New Books Network  August 27, 2021
Criticism

Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood

By Ellen O'Connell Whittet  August 26, 2021
Homes

Deborah Levy: Finding a Room House of One’s Own

By Deborah Levy  August 26, 2021
Childhood

Seeing Yourself in the Gaze of Others: On Disability and the Freedom of Youth

By Jan Grue  August 26, 2021
Mothers and Daughters

The Beginning of the End: Who Do We Become in the Face of a Parent’s Death?

By Kat Chow  August 25, 2021
Fashion

Why is Yves Saint Laurent’s “Sardine Dress” So Compelling?

By Alison Hawthorne Deming  August 25, 2021
Consciousness

I Bark, Therefore I Am: Of Consciousness and Robot Dogs

By Meghan O'Gieblyn  August 24, 2021
Friendship

The Long Unpredictable Life of Art: Francine Prose on Teaching James Alan McPherson to Incarcerated Students

By Francine Prose  August 23, 2021
Grief

My Year of Mourning: Mapping the Full Cycle of the Loss of My Father

By Merissa Nathan Gerson  August 23, 2021
The Hub

Read a previously unpublished Ursula K. Le Guin poem.

By Walker Caplan  August 20, 2021
Music

Tales of Bohemian Living with The Lounge Lizards in 1979 New York

By John Lurie  August 20, 2021
The War on Terror

Waiting in Darkness: My Time At Guantánamo

By Mansoor Adayfi  August 20, 2021
Fathers and Sons

When the Dismissive Editor in Your Head Is Your Father

By Jonathan Wells  August 20, 2021
New Books Network

Daniel Shapiro on Living Through a Spouse’s Terminal Illness

By New Books Network  August 20, 2021
Identity

On Romanizing Korean Names and Writing Immigrant Stories in an Acquired Language

By Yoon Choi  August 18, 2021
Thresholds

Deesha Philyaw on Leaving a Marriage While Writing a Short Story Collection

By Thresholds   August 18, 2021
Inspiration

My Shadow Book: On Consciously—or Unconsciously—Immortalizing Ex-Partners in Literary Fiction

By Andrew Palmer  August 17, 2021
Theater

Smoking Dope and Comparing Bad Reviews: Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine Discuss the Early Days of Their Collaboration

By James Lapine  August 16, 2021
Writing Life

The Loneliness of the Full-Time Writer

By Mike Gayle  August 13, 2021
Rock N Roll

Marc Ribot Makes the Case for Loud Music

By Marc Ribot  August 13, 2021
Immigration

Aching for the American Dream: On Writing the Delicate Stories of Immigrant and Refugee Students

By Elly Fishman  August 12, 2021
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