• Memoir

    Essay

    The Dirty Secret of War: It Can Be As Compelling As It Is Ugly

    By Philip Caputo  October 20, 2017
    Excerpts

    When the French Invaded Hanoi, My Brothers Stayed Behind

    By Mai Elliott  October 20, 2017
    Essay

    A Stroke Made My Mother a Poet, I Merely Transcribed

    By Marius Chivu  October 19, 2017
    Essay

    Falling in Love Over Email: Anatomy of a Digital Courtship

    By Peter Bognanni  October 18, 2017
    Essay

    The Painting That Changed My Life

    By Kerry Folan  October 18, 2017
    Essay

    Lidia Yuknavitch: The Time I Snuck Into Ken Kesey’s Fiction Class

    By Lidia Yuknavitch  October 17, 2017
    Excerpts

    On the Literary Wheelings and Dealings of Ulysses S. Grant and Mark Twain

    By Ron Chernow  October 17, 2017
    Essay

    What Does Your Life Teach You About Becoming a Writer?

    By David Biespiel  October 16, 2017
    Personal Essay

    On the Hard Lessons of Being a Hockey Dad

    By Nick Paumgarten  October 10, 2017
    Excerpts

    Writing Middle-Aged Love

    By Beth Ann Fennelly  October 10, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Story I Tell Myself About My Father’s Death

    By Sharon Harrigan  October 6, 2017
    Memoir

    Chance Encounters and Intimate Exchanges With Literary Icons

    By Jonas Mekas  October 6, 2017
    Personal Essay

    To Avoid Abuse, I Became Anansi the Trickster

    By Garnette Cadogan  October 5, 2017
    Memoir

    Remembering My Father, His Gifts, and His Glass Eye

    By Jeannie Vanasco  October 3, 2017
    Memoir

    Growing Up Gay in a Proud Southern Family

    By Armistead Maupin  October 2, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Etty Hillesum: God, Sex, and Defiance in a Time of War

    By Fiona Alison Duncan  September 27, 2017
    Excerpts

    Searching for My Mother, 16 Years After Her Murder

    By Sarah Perry  September 25, 2017
    Excerpts

    Life as a Trans Man in Turn-of-the-Century America

    By Emily Skidmore  September 22, 2017
    Personal Essay

    To Speak is to Be Misunderstood: On Parenting and Parents

    By Minna Zallman Proctor  September 21, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How A Single Rosh Hashanah Dinner Sparked 10 Years of Research

    By Devin Murphy  September 21, 2017
    Biography

    Writing Bellow’s Biography While He Was Still Alive

    By James Atlas  September 20, 2017
    Personal Essay

    A Monster No Matter What: On Being Unable to Grieve for My Father

    By Mako Yoshikawa  September 20, 2017
    Personal Essay

    A Lost Voice, Writer’s Block, and a New Life

    By Tova Mirvis  September 19, 2017
    Personal History

    Keeping House to Stave Off Grief

    By Kristen Martin  September 14, 2017
    Essay

    “He Comes for the Girls.” Philip Roth on Getting Kicked Out of Prague

    By Philip Roth  September 8, 2017
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