• Memoir

    Restaurants

    Kevin Alexander on the Funny, Unflinching, Cooking Memoirs You Need to Read

    By Kevin Alexander  July 16, 2019
    Capitalism

    A Laid-Off Journalist Takes a Job in an Amazon Warehouse

    By Emily Guendelsberger  July 16, 2019
    Chef memoir

    A Chef Traces the Start of Her Career to Her Mother’s Childhood

    By Iliana Regan  July 15, 2019
    Immigration stories

    A Firsthand Account of a 10-Year-Old Girl Fleeing Guatemala for Mexico

    By Claudia D. Hernández  July 10, 2019
    Youth

    On Falling for a Statue of Hermes in Athens

    By Grant Ginder  July 9, 2019
    Fishing

    My White Whale Was a 50-Pound Fish in Martha’s Vineyard

    By Janet Messineo  July 2, 2019
    Prison memoir

    The Torture of Being Trapped in an Australian Refugee Detention Center

    By Behrouz Boochani  June 28, 2019
    War

    Coming to the Realization That I Might Have PTSD

    By Ryan Leigh Dostie  June 28, 2019
    Meetings

    A Life-Changing Afternoon in Paris With Edmund White

    By Michael Carroll  June 28, 2019
    Literary History

    Paul Auster on the Time He Met Samuel Beckett

    By Paul Auster  June 27, 2019
    Feminism

    The Memoir I Never Wanted
    to Write

    By Chavisa Woods  June 26, 2019
    Dance

    Remembering Merce Cunningham and Radical Dance in Postwar Paris

    By Marianne Preger-Simon  June 26, 2019
    Overlooked Women

    On Being a Woman Who Loves Math

    By Catherine Chung  June 25, 2019
    News and Culture

    Annie Proulx on One of Her Favorite Short Stories

    By Annie Proulx  June 24, 2019
    News and Culture

    On Kathy Acker: A Desk, A Disease, An Accounting

    By Teresa Rose Carmody  June 19, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Jayson Greene on the Risks of Writing About Grief

    By Hannah Seidlitz  June 17, 2019
    Father's Day

    Fathers and Sons: The Things We Talk About to Avoid Talking to Each Other

    By Dean Kuipers  June 14, 2019
    Father's Day

    A Brief Literary History of Absolutely Terrible Dads

    By Andrew Thurman  June 14, 2019
    Father's Day

    Red Sox Great Luis Tiant on Reuniting with His Father After 14 Years

    By Luis Tiant  June 14, 2019
    Father's Day

    Remembering My Father, Jacques Lacan

    By Sibylle Lacan  June 14, 2019
    The Hub

    Eileen Myles: Chelsea Girls was the documentary I wanted to make.

    By Eileen Myles  June 13, 2019
    War

    On the Syrian Border, 2015, After the Story’s “Gone Elsewhere”

    By Elliot Ackerman  June 13, 2019
    Childhood

    Sex, Violence, and Jerry Lewis: Aleksandar Hemon on the Preoccupations of His 10-Year-Old Self

    By Aleksandar Hemon  June 13, 2019
    little boy in the big city

    City Lights: A Young Cree Boy Journeys to Edmonton

    By Darrel J. McLeod  June 12, 2019
    Trauma

    In the Aftermath of a Plane Crash

    By Eduardo Strauch and Mireya Soriano  June 10, 2019
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