Memoir

After My Daughter Was Born, I Became a Spiritual Tourist

Anjali Kumar On Parenting, God, and Hugging Amma

 
By Anjali Kumar  January 18, 2018
Excerpts

From Calcutta to Jersey and Back Again, an Epic Immigrant Journey

By Kushanava Choudhury  January 12, 2018
Excerpts

One Man’s Escape From North Korea

By Masaji Ishikawa  January 2, 2018
Essay

Addicted to Glamour: Writing My Way Back to the Center of Life

By Joan Juliet Buck  December 18, 2017
Excerpts

The Fine Art of Learning to Say Nothing in Arabic

By Adam Valen Levinson  December 7, 2017
Design

See It Here First: The Cover for Porochista Khakpour’s New Memoir

By Literary Hub  November 30, 2017
Excerpts

Life with a Legendary (and Eccentric) Cartoonist

By Cullen Murphy  November 29, 2017
Excerpts

Claire Vaye Watkins: Some Houses (Various Stages of Dissolve)

By Claire Vaye Watkins  November 28, 2017
Excerpts

Orhan Pamuk: Taking Photographs in Istanbul

By Orhan Pamuk  November 14, 2017
Essay

I Was Already Leaving Florida When I Arrived

By Lidia Yuknavitch  November 13, 2017
Excerpts

Martinis=Mean. Wine=Wise. A New Yorker Critic’s Guide to Conversation

By Anne Fadiman  November 9, 2017
Essay

The Food Writer Who Lost Her Sense of Smell

By Sofia Perez  November 2, 2017
Essay

Discovering My Family’s Murderous Nazi Past

By Sacha Batthyany  November 1, 2017
Essay

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

By Philip Caputo  October 20, 2017
Excerpts

Writing Middle-Aged Love

By Beth Ann Fennelly  October 10, 2017
Memoir

Chance Encounters and Intimate Exchanges With Literary Icons

By Jonas Mekas  October 6, 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
Memoir

Can the New York Times’ Modern Love Column Change a Writer’s Life?

By Andrea Jarrell  September 8, 2017
Memoir

How to Write a Book With Traumatic Brain Injury

By Alice Anderson  September 1, 2017
Memoir

Andy Warhol’s Superstars and the Invention of Downtown New York

By Victor P. Corona  July 20, 2017
Memoir

Growing Up As An Untouchable

By Sujatha Gidla  July 18, 2017
Memoir

Daring to Drive (And Write About It) in Saudi Arabia

By Sabrina Toppa  June 19, 2017
Excerpts

How I Helped Tell a Soldier’s Story

By Jane Bernstein  October 28, 2016
Excerpts

Stop Stereotyping Lexicographers!

By John Simpson  October 24, 2016
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