• Memoir

    Islam

    On the Push and Pull of Muslim Cultural Identity

    By Omar Mouallem  September 30, 2021
    Awards

    Announcing the Winner of Restless Books 2021 Prize for New Immigrant Writing

    By Literary Hub  September 30, 2021
    The Writing Life

    Saying a Few Words About My Novel at the Aphasia Self-Help Group

    By Jon McGregor  September 29, 2021
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    Here Are September’s Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies

    By Book Marks  September 29, 2021
    Freeman's

    Lauren Groff on Growing Up in What Felt Like the Middle of Nowhere

    By Lauren Groff  September 28, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    Saving Our Trees, Saving Our Animals

    By Dr. Kinari Webb  September 28, 2021
    Language

    Wakanda Forever: How the Black Panther Salute Links the Black Community

    By William Evans  September 27, 2021
    Grief

    Bargaining a Writing Career for a Father’s Life

    By Christopher Sorrentino  September 27, 2021
    TV

    How the Iconic Late-Night TV Character of Elvira Came to Be

    By Cassandra Peterson  September 24, 2021
    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
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