• Memoir

    Women's Health

    Talking About the Pain and Anxiety of Menstruation

    By Eleanor Morgan  August 27, 2019
    Mental health

    A Mental Health Activist Confronts Her Own Inner Turmoil

    By Leah Harris  August 27, 2019
    Grief

    Writing the Impossible Grief of Very Young Widowhood

    By Kelsey Ronan  August 26, 2019
    American Classics

    Jenny Zhang on Reading Little Women and Wanting to Be Like Jo March

    By Jenny Zhang  August 23, 2019
    On Poetry

    Why Do I Recite the Same Paul Celan Poem to All My Dates?

    By Sara Martin  August 22, 2019
    News and Culture

    At the Crossroads Where Jamaica’s History and Fictions Meet

    By Marcia Douglas  August 21, 2019
    Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview

    Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Memoir

    By Literary Hub  August 20, 2019
    Influences

    Lessons From Nabokov: Finding Freedom in a Foreign Language

    By Rajia Hassib  August 19, 2019
    Sex

    On the Love Hotels and Pleasure Quarters of Tokyo

    By Anna Sherman  August 16, 2019
    Memoir

    For Sarah Broom, Coming-of-Age Means Learning to See

    By Sarah M. Broom  August 15, 2019
    Journeys

    Lyz Lenz: Finding a Creation Myth of One’s Own

    By Lyz Lenz  August 14, 2019
    Memoir

    Sister Helen Prejean:
    My Faith Began With a Fear of Leaving Home

    By Helen Prejean  August 14, 2019
    On Race

    Ibram X. Kendi: How Racism Relies on Arbitrary Hierarchies

    By Ibram X. Kendi  August 13, 2019
    Memoir

    The Road to Oliver Sacks’

    By Lawrence Weschler  August 13, 2019
    Memoir

    Gregory Orr on Rebuilding a Life When Nothing Makes Sense

    By Gregory Orr  August 12, 2019
    Language

    The Bittersweet Feeling of Reconnecting with a Forgotten Language

    By Susan Harlan  August 12, 2019
    Travel

    Loathing, Leaving and Coming to Love Albuquerque

    By Sean Gandert  August 12, 2019
    Superstition

    Rick Moody on the Case of the Cursed Charles Manson Autograph

    By Rick Moody  August 8, 2019
    Role Models

    Loud, Lewd, Cheating, Smoking, Bisexual Degenerate: Marlene Dietrich, My Teenage Role Model

    By Amanda Lee Koe  August 7, 2019
    Cultural Criticism

    Tope Folarin on the Misguided Urge to Carve the World Into Binaries

    By Tope Folarin  August 7, 2019
    War

    Lessons From a Decade Reporting on Women During the Iraq War

    By Hannah Allam  August 6, 2019
    Marriage

    The Painter’s Wife vs. The Poet’s Husband: Portrait of a Marriage

    By Shawna Lemay  August 6, 2019
    Musings on Mothers

    ‘Someday, She Will Become Your Job.’ On Being My Mother’s Sole Caregiver

    By Elissa Altman  August 5, 2019
    Working Women

    The Late-Capitalist Privileges of
    Being an Art Monster

    By Sarah Elaine Smith  July 31, 2019
    Personal Essay

    Finding Photos of My Grandfather in a Japanese Internment Camp

    By Brandon Shimoda  July 30, 2019
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