Memoir

To Sit Beside Boris Fishman on an Airplane is to Behold the Riches of Russian Cooking

On the Soviet Union, Scarcity, and Satisfaction

 
By Boris Fishman  February 15, 2019
Excerpts

Notes on an Italian Getaway in Australia

By Beppe Severgnini  February 13, 2019
Essay

Why I Was Finally Able to Write About My Husband

By Judy Goldman  February 12, 2019
Excerpts

A Dream Job Too Good To Be True, a Story Too Weird to Believe

By Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman  February 7, 2019
Excerpts

One Family’s Story of the Great Migration North

By Bridgett M. Davis  January 30, 2019
Excerpts

Recipes and Wisdom from the Late, Great Ntozake Shange

By Ntozake Shange  January 29, 2019
Excerpts

Dani Shapiro: Did My Parents Even Know?

By Dani Shapiro  January 23, 2019
Essay

Honor Moore: On Finishing the Book and Conjuring My Mother

By Honor Moore  January 3, 2019
Excerpts

A Prose Poem by Chelene Knight

By Chelene Knight  December 3, 2018
Excerpts

Glimpses of a Transformative Primary School in Johannesburg

By Malaika wa Azania  November 19, 2018
Excerpts

What It’s Like to Be Rejected by Your Religious Family

By Jessica Wilbanks  November 16, 2018
Excerpts

My Parents’ Wedding Was Arranged. I Wanted Something Different.

By Huda Al-Marashi  November 15, 2018
Excerpts

Adventures in Insomnia: Sleep Diets, Weird Dreams, and the Singularity

By Marina Benjamin  November 14, 2018
Excerpts

Twenty-Three Things About W.H. Auden

By Bill Berkson  November 5, 2018
Excerpts

Peter Sagal: I Got Divorced. And Then I Ran a Mile in My Underwear.

By Peter Sagal  November 2, 2018
Excerpts

Patrick Modiano: To Flee a Parisian Crime Scene

By Patrick Modiano  October 25, 2018
Essay

On the Adventuresome Dane Who Drove Across North Africa in the 1930s

By André Naffis-Sahely  October 12, 2018
Conversations

Nicole Chung: “Adoptees Have So Rarely Gotten To Tell Their Own Stories.”

By Mira Jacob  October 11, 2018
Design

Reckoning with What It Means to Be German

By Nora Krug  October 11, 2018
Design

When a Writer Wants You and Only You to Design Their Cover

By Alison Forner  October 10, 2018
Essay

My Return to Tehran: On Family, Restlessness, and Revolution

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi  September 27, 2018
Excerpts

Teaching the Literature of Mad Women

By Sarah Fawn Montgomery  September 24, 2018
Excerpts

‘I Started to Cry.’ Sally Field on Bringing Norma Rae to Cannes

By Sally Field  September 24, 2018
Excerpts

Remembering My Lola By Teaching Myself How to Cook

By Melissa R. Sipin  September 21, 2018
Excerpts

Traveling To Spain With My Father’s Ashes

By Devin Galaudet  September 14, 2018
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