• Memoir

    History of Science

    ‘Something Like My Own Obituary.’ Albert Einstein on Skepticism, Reason, and Truth

    By Albert Einstein  May 14, 2020
    Cancer

    On Embracing the Wig After a Cancer Diagnosis

    By Mary Ladd  May 14, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    A Girl’s Story

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 13, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Compassion and Care: Being an EMT During a Pandemic

    By Maya Alexandri  May 13, 2020
    Essayists

    Wayne Koestenbaum Considers Incense, Irish Spring, and, Yes, Some Other Smells

    By Wayne Koestenbaum  May 13, 2020
    Insomnia

    Samantha Harvey on Grappling with Insomnia and Reckoning With the Past

    By Samantha Harvey  May 13, 2020
    Baseball

    Rediscovering Lou Gehrig’s
    Lost Memoir

    By Alan D. Gaff  May 12, 2020
    Graphic Memoir

    An Illustrated Day at the Portland Book Festival

    By Leslie Stein  May 11, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Life in Lockdown with My Wonderful Brand New Family of Sea-Monkeys

    By Aimee Knight  May 8, 2020
    Mother's Day

    On First Hearing the Manic Rhythm of My Baby’s Heart

    By Gabriela Wiener  May 8, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Humera Afridi on the Quarantine State of Mind

    By Humera Afridi  May 8, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Under a Sky Fall Full of Stars

    By David Searcy  May 7, 2020
    Social Media

    Jennifer Weiner on Representations of Fatness and the Line Between Affirmation and Self-Loathing

    By Jennifer Weiner  May 5, 2020
    Vietnam

    My Displacement Has Shown Me Where My Home Is

    By Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai  May 5, 2020
    The Hub

    Highly recommended: the intimacy of correspondence via voice message.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 4, 2020
    Musicians

    Tori Amos is Always Listening
    to The Muses

    By Brian Gresko  May 4, 2020
    Education

    The Young Girl Who Became Don Quixote (If Not a Little Better)

    By Stephen Haff  May 1, 2020
    Reading

    When I Could No Longer Dance, I Found Comfort in Books

    By Ellen O'Connell Whittet  April 29, 2020
    Addiction

    When Codependency Feels
    Like a Disease

    By Nina Renata Aron  April 29, 2020
    Love Affairs

    My Father and Frida Kahlo:
    A Love Story

    By Marc Petitjean  April 29, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    A Night on the Frontlines During
    a Pandemic

    By Maya Alexandri  April 28, 2020
    Motherhood

    The Saint and I: On Augustine and Writing About Mothers

    By Natalie Carnes  April 28, 2020
    Family Stories

    Turning the Story of a Family Inside Out

    By Nick Kowalczyk  April 28, 2020
    Theater

    Writerly Lessons From an Early ’90s Improv Class

    By Joanna Hershon  April 27, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Trying to Find a Breath
    in a Pandemic

    By Emily Rapp Black and Lisa Glatt  April 24, 2020
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