• Memoir

    Artists

    Eileen Myles on Following Joan Mitchell’s Path Through New York City

    By Eileen Myles  September 23, 2021
    Family Histories

    What is Revealed by the Family Stories That Go Untold?

    By Kei Miller  September 23, 2021
    Thresholds

    Rebecca Carroll on the Joy and Relief of Finding Catharsis Through Crafting Memoir

    By Thresholds   September 22, 2021
    Motherhood

    Out of the Closet and Out of Time: On Being an Old(ish) Mother

    By Laura Davis  September 22, 2021
    Tech

    How a Second-Generation Latino Immigrant Became Known as the Boy Genius of Apple

    By Michael Sayman  September 21, 2021
    Book Covers

    What If My Book’s Cover Design Misrepresents Its Content?

    By Saumya Roy  September 21, 2021
    Queer History

    Telling the Real Story Behind the AIDS Panic in a Small Florida Town

    By Steven Reigns  September 20, 2021
    The Writing Life

    From Exobiology and Geology to… Writing Fiction?

    By Linda Rui Feng  September 17, 2021
    Memoir

    Encountering Annie Ernaux’s Urban Landscapes and Scattered Selves

    By Lauren Elkin  September 16, 2021
    Feminism

    Coming of Age and Questioning Traditional Rituals at a Boarding School in Kenya

    By Nice Leng'ete  September 16, 2021
    The Body

    Writing a Novel Through Illness: On the Inseparability of Body and Mind

    By Cai Emmons  September 15, 2021
    Feminism

    Why an Early Feminist Advocated for the Right to Divorce

    By Luisa Capetillo  September 14, 2021
    On Reading

    The Books That Give Us Chills: On Reading Emotionally

    By Veronica Esposito  September 13, 2021
    Queer Identity

    If I Had Loved Her Less: On a Queer Reading of Henry David Thoreau and the Daily Performance of Manhood

    By Jennifer Finney Boylan  September 13, 2021
    Writing Life

    Some Life Lessons (Read: Humiliations) From Playing Music

    By Emily Itami  September 13, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    Charles Foster on Communion with the More-Than-Human and the Limits of Language

    By Emergence Magazine  September 13, 2021
    Family History

    Triumph and Tragedy: On Being a Mets Fan… and Being a Mankiewicz

    By Nick Davis  September 13, 2021
    9/11

    City of Ash: Photographing New York City on the Morning of 9/11

    By Rachel Cobb  September 11, 2021
    9/11

    9/11 and Everything After: On Bearing Witness to History Through the Eyes of My Daughter

    By Sasha Sagan  September 10, 2021
    9/11

    From the Fall of the Towers to Building Anew

    By Joe Woolhead  September 10, 2021
    On Racism

    Assimilation and Erasure: How Imposter Syndrome Traps People of Color

    By Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez  September 10, 2021
    Family Histories

    The Three Women of Bronzeville: On Finding Safety in My Mother, Grandmother, and Aunt

    By Dawn Turner  September 10, 2021
    Antarctica

    Finding Purpose in the Desolation of Antarctica

    By Jemma Wadham  September 9, 2021
    California

    Falling in Love with Instant Anonymity: How I Became a Perpetual Student of LA

    By María Amparo Escandón  September 9, 2021
    Wilderness

    Following the Paths of the Wild-Walking Women of the Past, from Nan Shepherd to Georgia O’Keeffe

    By Annabel Abbs  September 9, 2021
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