Memoir

Life in a Pandemic

What The (Dixie) Chicks Meant to Me As a Teenager in Namibia

By Rémy Ngamije  August 12, 2021
In Memoriam

How to Say Goodbye: Cecily Strong’s Eulogy For Her Beloved Cousin Owen

By Cecily Strong  August 11, 2021
Illness

Women’s Memoirs at the Intersection of Chronic Illness, Mental Illness, Addiction, and Trauma

By Eleanor Henderson  August 11, 2021
On Writing

Thereness on the Outer Banks: On Landscape in Literature

By Angel Khoury  August 11, 2021
Music

What is This Music? “Drill Isn’t a Genre, It’s an Aesthetic Stance.”

By Kit Mackintosh  August 11, 2021
Teenagers

Rebel Without a Real Cause: On Surviving the Social Hierarchies of High School

By Via Bleidner  August 10, 2021
The Writing Life

The Painful Cost of the Writing Life

By James Tate Hill  August 9, 2021
Cancer

On Reframing and Overcoming the Bodily Colonization of Stage 4 Cancer

By Fred D’Aguiar  August 9, 2021
Medicine

The Medicine Memoirs That Every Aspiring Doctor Should Read

By Robert Meyer, MD, and Dan Koeppel  August 9, 2021
On Race

What Visiting Plantations Taught Me About Historical Erasure

By LaTanya McQueen  August 9, 2021
Life in a Pandemic

On Loss, Time, and Hope: My Year of Reading Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet

By Sara Batkie  August 6, 2021
Fathers and Daughters

On the 26-Year Search for a Photo
of My Father

By Anna Qu  August 6, 2021
Indigenous Peoples

Cree Turned City Slicker: Returning to One’s Indigenous Heritage

By Darrel J. McLeod  August 6, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Larissa Pham on Allowing Memory to Shape a Memoir

By Larissa Pham  August 6, 2021
Life in a Pandemic

Compartmentalizing and Coping: Life as an Emergency Doctor During COVID

By Robert Meyer, MD, and Dan Koeppel  August 5, 2021
Healthcare

What We Ask of Women When Affordable Health Insurance Is Tied to Full-Time Work

By Deborah Copaken  August 5, 2021
The Hub

At 95 years young, Mel Brooks has finally written his memoir.

By Walker Caplan  August 4, 2021
Family Histories

“I Am the Last Nomad.” What It Means to Be the Sole Keeper of a Family’s Stories

By Shugri Said Salh  August 4, 2021
Audiobooks

My Life Story, Someone Else’s Voice: Why I Won’t Be Narrating My Memoir’s Audiobook

By James Tate Hill  August 3, 2021
Political Narratives

Reading is a Political Encounter: On Violence, Language, and Selective Forgetting

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi  August 3, 2021
Climate Crisis

Letter to an Unborn Child: How Could I Bring You Into a Collapsing World?

By Daniel Sherrell  August 3, 2021
Storybound

Ruth Wariner Reads an Excerpt From The Sound of Gravel

By Storybound   August 3, 2021
Road Trips

Reinventing the Transformative Vision of America in Nabokov’s Cross-Country Chronicles

By Thomas Dai  August 2, 2021
Remembrances

In Memory of My Parents, the Late Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha

By Rodrigo Garcia  August 2, 2021
Influences

In Praise of Racist Books: Notes of an Immigrant Reader

By Louis Chude-Sokei  August 2, 2021
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