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“Shame Was My First Drug”: A Conversation with Erin Khar
Erin Khar discusses her memoir about recovering from addiction, “Strung Out.”
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
In Search of Samuel R. Delany
Lavelle Porter considers "In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delaney, Volume I, 1957–1969."
Squeezing the Slave Out Drop by Drop: Vivian Gornick’s “Unfinished Business”
Emily LaBarge on the pleasures of reading Vivian Gornick rereading.
Septemberland, How to Find Your Way in a Post-9/11 Dystopian World
Jordan Elgrably reviews "When All Else Fails" by Rayyan Al-Shawaf and "When We Were Arabs" by Massoud Hayoun.
No One Is Nothing: On “Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA’s Graffiti Subculture”
Ryan Gattis reviews Stefano Bloch's new book.
Elizabeth Wurtzel and the Feminist Disability Memoir
Elizabeth Wurtzel changed how we think about memoir — and mental illness.
A Personal Journey: On “Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World”
A political memoir of 15 years spent in exile.
The Stories Silicon Valley Tells Itself in Order to Live: A Conversation with Anna Wiener
Anna Wiener discusses her new memoir about working in Silicon Valley.
Abandoning Your Religion
Tucker Coombe reviews "Leaving the Witness" and "Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church."
Before “American Dirt,” There Was “The Korean Angela’s Ashes”
The “American Dirt” dustup recalls another publishing fiasco.
Rewriting McCullers
Ellie Duke explores the biographer’s role in biography in a review of Jenn Shapland’s “My Autobiography of Carson McCullers.”
Renovating the House of Fiction: On Rachel Cusk’s “Coventry”
Donal Harris reviews Rachel Cusk’s new essay collection, “Coventry.”
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