Memoir & Essay

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Just Because You Played a Writer, Doesn’t Mean You Are One: A Conversation Between Savannah Knoop and Amy Scholder
Talking to Savannah Knoop about their work and their time as JT Leroy.
Amy ScholderApr 16, 2020
Listening to the Darkness: On Jeff Sharlet’s “This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers”
L. Benjamin Rolsky looks at "This Brilliant Darkness," the new book from Jeff Sharlet.
L. Benjamin RolskyApr 15, 2020
Freeway Dreams
A historian of misbegotten urban development writes of growing up queer in Tucson.
Candice YaconoApr 13, 2020
- History
- Memoir & Essay
The Feminine Ending: On Women’s Writing in Yiddish, Now Available in English
Madeleine Cohen greets new English translations of women authors who wrote in Yiddish.
Madeleine CohenApr 10, 2020
In the World to Change It
Prominent female Palestinian-American Muslim advocate Linda Sarsour writes a memoir.
Stephanie AbrahamApr 9, 2020
- Memoir & Essay
- Politics
Nothing Sacred: On “Intelligence for Dummies”
ZE Books, for its inaugural publication, has released “Intelligence for Dummies,” a collection of Glenn O’Brien’s writings from 1963 to 2017.
Eugenie DallandApr 4, 2020
- Art & Architecture
- Memoir & Essay
Living the Dream: On Ludvík Vaculík’s “A Czech Dreambook”
Michael Tate delves into “A Czech Dreambook” by Ludvík Vaculík, translated by Gerald Turner.
Michael TateApr 4, 2020
Please Fix Me: A Conversation with Anna Mehler Paperny
Anna Mehler Paperny discusses her new memoir about suicide and mental illness.
Travis LupickMar 31, 2020
- Memoir & Essay
Early Mourning: On Chantal Akerman’s “My Mother Laughs”
Daniel Fraser looks at the most recent translation of Chantal Akerman’s “My Mother Laughs” as a work about motherhood, illness, and language.
Daniel FraserMar 22, 2020
Goodness Is a Triumph: On Ed Simon’s “Furnace of this World; Or, 36 Observations about Goodness”
Nick Ripatrazone enters "Furnace of this World; Or, 36 Observations about Goodness," a recently published book by Ed Simon.
Mar 20, 2020
- Memoir & Essay
- Religion
Beneath the Mucous-Paper: On D. H. Lawrence’s “The Bad Side of Books”
Robert Minto gets “the full Lawrence experience” from “The Bad Side of Books: Selected Essays of D. H. Lawrence.”
Robert MintoMar 18, 2020
- Memoir & Essay
What It All Meant: A Conversation with Alex Halberstadt
Meredith Maran interviews Alex Halberstadt about his debut memoir, “Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning.”
Meredith MaranMar 10, 2020
- History
- Memoir & Essay