Memoir & Essay

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

In Your Loss of Time I Found All of Myself Included: On Naja Marie Aidt’s “When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back”
Nathan Scott McNamara reviews Naja Marie Aidt’s “When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back,” translated from the Danish by Denise Newman.
Nathan Scott McNamaraSep 10, 2019
The Generative Joy of Missing: Jennifer Croft’s “Homesick”
Ellie Robins is moved by “Homesick,” a memoir by Jennifer Croft.
Ellie RobinsSep 10, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
“Why Did You Survive?”: On Yevsey Tseytlin’s “Long Conversations in Anticipation of a Joyous Death”
Linda Kinstler listens in on “Long Conversations in Anticipation of a Joyous Death” by Yevsey Tseytlin, translated from the Russian by Alexander Rojavin.
Linda KinstlerSep 7, 2019
Jennine Capó Crucet and Post-Trump Latinx Literature
Renee Hudson reviews Jennine Capó Crucet’s “My Time Among the Whites.”
Renee HudsonSep 3, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
- Politics
Lacy Johnson’s Quality of Mercy
A new collection of essays on the nuanced meanings of justice in the 21st century.
Rachel ClineSep 2, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
Larger and More Befuddling Questions: On Jane Tompkins’s “Reading Through the Night”
Dylan Brown reads through “Reading Through the Night” by literary critic Jane Tompkins.
Dylan BrownSep 1, 2019
- Literary Criticism
- Memoir & Essay
Writing Afterimage: Show Versus Tell and the Multimedia Narrative
Merrill Feitell on the form and function of multimedia narratives.
Merrill FeitellAug 20, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
- Nonfiction
Unguilty Pleasures: On Emily Nussbaum’s “I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution”
Sophia Stewart finds a lot to like in “I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution” by Emily Nussbaum.
Sophia StewartAug 19, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
- Television
Comprehension Way Ahead of Speech: On Renato Rosaldo’s “The Chasers”
A distinguished anthropologist explores the memoir as a form of auto-ethnography.
Tara WestmorAug 16, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
Artful Embroidery: Jo Giese’s “Never Sit If You Can Dance”
Jill Schary Robinson reviews Jo Giese’s new memoir about the lessons her mother taught her.
Jill Schary RobinsonAug 15, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
I Could Not Even Trust My Own Mind: Dinah Lenney Interviews JoeAnn Hart
Dinah Lenney speaks to JoeAnn Hart, author of “Stamford ’76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and Feminism in the 1970s.”
Dinah LenneyAug 14, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
Door Open for Beauty: On Deborah Tobola’s “Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men’s Prison, a Memoir”
Irina Dumitrescu reflects on Deborah Tobola’s “Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men’s Prison, a Memoir.”
Irina DumitrescuAug 2, 2019
- Memoir & Essay