Memoir

Why You Should Let Your Family Read Your Memoir in Advance

Lilly Dancyger on Navigating Hard (Subjective) Truths

 
By Lilly Dancyger  May 6, 2024
Memoir

Getting to Know My Husband’s Late Wife Through the Words She Left Behind

By Amy Paturel  June 28, 2023
Memoir

The Morning Following the Discovery of the Affair

By Hannah Pittard  May 4, 2023
Memoir

Between Shame, Desire, and Destiny: On the Genius of Annie Ernaux

By Ken Chen  December 12, 2022
Memoir

Making Something Special of Solitude: Baek Sehee on Falling Through Life’s Cracks

By Baek Sehee and Anton Hur  December 1, 2022
Memoir

Qian Julie Wang on Zou Or, The Act of Leaving

By Qian Julie Wang  November 7, 2022
Memoir

“Giacometti Slept with the Lights On…” And Other Encounters with Mid-Century Art Stars

By Barbara Chase-Riboud  October 31, 2022
Memoir

Honestly, I’d Rather Be Living in an Elin Hilderbrand Novel

By Mary Bergman  September 7, 2022
Memoir

Why I Wrote My Memoir, a Letter to My Transgender Daughter, Under a Pen Name

By Carolyn Hays  September 6, 2022
Memoir

On Reading My Memoir to My Father

By Séamas O'Reilly  June 7, 2022
Memoir

Looking to Songs and Sermons to Structure a Memoir About Fighting for Black Lives

By Andre Henry  May 19, 2022
Memoir

Seema Reza on the Joy of Being (Completely) Alone

By Seema Reza  May 17, 2022
Memoir

Douglas Stuart on the Defiant Spirit of Glasgow’s Doocots, Private Pigeon Lofts on Public Land

By Douglas Stuart  April 6, 2022
Memoir

Telling the Stories of the Wrongly Incarcerated

By Phoebe Zerwick  March 17, 2022
Memoir

Georgia Pritchett Recounts a TV Industry #MeToo Experience in Three Acts, with No Closure

By Georgia Pritchett  February 9, 2022
Memoir

In Place of Splendour

By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 6, 2021
Memoir

Diane di Prima Remembers Her Friend Freddie Herko

By Diane Di Prima  October 6, 2021
Memoir

Encountering Annie Ernaux’s Urban Landscapes and Scattered Selves

By Lauren Elkin  September 16, 2021
Criticism

Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood

By Ellen O'Connell Whittet  August 26, 2021
Memoir

“You Can’t Hide the Ocean.” On Finding My Way to the Interminable Sea

By Cai Chongda  July 9, 2021
Memoir

7 Autobiographies and Memoirs That Remind Us of the Messiness of Memory

By Whitney Otto  March 31, 2021
Memoir

Yiyun Li on the Brilliance of Bette Howland

By Yiyun Li  January 15, 2021
Memoir

Gabriel Byrne Talks Memory, Loneliness and More With Karl Geary

By Karl Geary  January 13, 2021
Memoir

Alisson Wood on the Myth of Catharsis and Reclaiming One’s Power

By Luna Adler  October 26, 2020
Memoir

Are We Comfortable Encountering Strangers Anymore?

By Sebastian Matthews  August 25, 2020
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