Memoir & Essay

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

My Late Lunch with Oliver Sacks
A conversation in Elysium — or, rather, the West Village — with the late Oliver Sacks.
Jay NeugeborenJul 25, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
- Nonfiction
Self-Exposure: Two Retrospectives by Autobiographical Comics Pioneers Julie Doucet and Ariel Schrag
Frederik Byrn Køhlert reviews two new collections from Ariel Schrag and Julie Doucet.
Frederik Byrn KøhlertJul 19, 2019
- Comics
- Memoir & Essay
Identity Shaping on Social Media: On Jia Tolentino’s “Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion”
Maggie Levantovskaya gazes into “Trick Mirror,” a new essay collection by Jia Tolentino.
Maggie LevantovskayaJul 16, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
Stay Out of the Forest: On Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark’s “Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered”
Jacquelyn Ardam weighs in on “Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered” by “My Favorite Murder” podcasters Georgia Hardstark and Karen Kilgariff.
Jacquelyn ArdamJul 15, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
- Nonfiction
Fighting as Conversation: On Jaed Coffin’s “Roughhouse Friday”
"Roughhouse Friday" details Jaed Coffin’s hunger for a language he can call his own.
Matthew JanneyJul 14, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
Before Ta-Nehisi Coates: On James Alan McPherson’s “Crabcakes”
Anya Ventura revisits "Crabcakes," the 1998 memoir by the late James Alan McPherson.
Anya VenturaJul 4, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
Darkness Visible, Light Ahead: On Mary Cregan’s “The Scar”
Leslie Kendall Dye tends to "The Scar," a new memoir by Mary Cregan.
Leslie Kendall DyeJul 2, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
- Science & Technology
Through a Gen-X Lens: A Conversation with Meghan Daum
A celebrated essayist takes on #MeToo, Twitter, and other millennial obsessions.
Otis HoustonJul 1, 2019
Blowing the Philosopher’s Fuses: Michel Foucault’s LSD Trip in the Valley of Death
James Penner takes a trip through “Foucault in California” by Simeon Wade, which chronicles the day when a great French philosopher blew his mind.
James PennerJun 17, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
- Philosophy & Religion
No Filters: On Kathleen Collins’s “Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary”
Trisha R. Thomas is inspired by “Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary,” the posthumous collection of Kathleen Collins’s writing edited by Nina Lorez Collins.
Trisha R. ThomasJun 13, 2019
- Fiction
- Memoir & Essay
Cruising for Sex, Cruising the Political: Alex Espinoza’s “Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime”
Michael Nava reviews Alex Espinoza’s “Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime.”
Michael NavaJun 12, 2019
Writing About Binyavanga Wainaina
On the Kenyan author’s rich — and discomfiting — intellectual legacy.
Raksha VasudevanJun 11, 2019