• Memoir

    Gender and Politics

    Andrea Long Chu on Desire, Weak Love, and Modern Trans Identity

    By Eric Newman  October 29, 2019
    Translation

    Reyna Grande on Translating Her Own Book Into Spanish

    By Reyna Grande  October 29, 2019
    Prison

    The Impassable Divides of the Prison Visiting Room

    By John Edgar Wideman  October 28, 2019
    Travel

    Pilgrims, Priests, and Breaking Bread in an Alpine Monastery

    By Timothy Egan  October 25, 2019
    Sexual Assault

    Unsubstantiated: An Essay of Sexual Violence

    By Susan Straight  October 24, 2019
    Inspiration

    For So Many Cultures, the Key to Understanding Death is a Festival of Light

    By Sasha Sagan  October 24, 2019
    Starting Over

    The Art of Surviving a Move to New York

    By Dina Nayeri  October 23, 2019
    Essayists

    Marguerite Duras: Internet Essayist?

    By Maddie Crum  October 21, 2019
    Correspondence

    Do Printed-Out Emails Count As Letters? (Yes)

    By Dheepa Maturi  October 21, 2019
    Trauma

    Panic is Worse Than Pain: How Fiction Failed Me After Trauma

    By Jenn Ashworth  October 18, 2019
    Being Trans

    Cyrus Grace Dunham on Why We Need to Explode the Gender Binary

    By Sarah Neilson  October 17, 2019
    Audiobooks

    Nnedi Okorafor on Writing and Narrating the Audiobook of Her Memoir

    By Emily Connelly  October 17, 2019
    Fashion

    Leah Vernon: A Day in the Life of a Fat Model

    By Leah Vernon  October 16, 2019
    Graphic Memoir

    Is There a Program for Addiction to
    12-Step Programs?

    By David Heatley  October 16, 2019
    News and Culture

    Who Has the Right to Write About Hurricane Katrina?

    By Maggie Neil  October 11, 2019
    Dictators

    In the Age of Political Thugs

    By Sonya Bilocerkowycz  October 11, 2019
    Coming of Age

    On Coming of Age in a Discount Supermarket

    By Michael Jaime-Becerra  October 11, 2019
    Fathers and Sons

    When Stephen King is Your Father, the World is Full of Monsters

    By Joe Hill  October 10, 2019
    Philosophy

    The Best Time to Practice Stoicism? When Your Flight is Canceled

    By William B. Irvine  October 10, 2019
    Culture

    On the Radical Misremembering of Childhood

    By Joanna Howard  October 10, 2019
    Eve Babitz

    Eve Babitz on the Time She Played Chess Nude with Marcel Duchamp

    By Eve Babitz  October 9, 2019
    Letters

    If Shakespeare’s Juliet Was an Advice Columnist, What Would You Ask Her?

    By The Juliet Club   October 9, 2019
    Origin Stories

    Saeed Jones on Finding a Sense of Self in New York City

    By Saeed Jones  October 8, 2019
    Children's Literature

    On the Darkness at the Heart of Jamaica Kincaid’s Children’s Mystery

    By Gabrielle Bellot  October 7, 2019
    Women's Anger

    On Finding the Freedom to Rage Against Our Fathers

    By Minda Honey  October 7, 2019
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