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Granted: The Best
Bob Blaisdell pores over “The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant” and “My Dearest Julia: The Wartime Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Wife.”
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Fractured Origins in Esmé Weijun Wang’s “The Collected Schizophrenias”
Katharine Coldiron on Esmé Weijun Wang’s prize-winning essay collection, “The Collected Schizophrenias," which joins the schizophrenia memoir canon.
You, Plural
A new memoir about sexual abuse, eating disorders, and the vulnerability of black bodies.
Why Me?: On Tressie McMillan Cottom’s “Thick: And Other Essays”
In “Thick,” black womanhood unites all the essays, yet Tressie McMillan Cottom is not interested in making simple generalizations from her own experience.
The Granular Nuances of Meaning
Elisa Gabbert’s new collection of essays explores modes of memory and communication.
One Mask at a Time: An Interview with Stephen Dunn
A Pulitzer Prize–winning poet reflects on sincerity, mortality, the buffoonery of Trump, and dogs as comic relief.
A Moral Guide: On Amos Oz’s “Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land”
Seth Greenland responds to “Dear Zealots,” a call for peace by the late Israeli novelist Amos Oz.
Relationship Counseling for the Apocalypse
A new memoir about how to sustain relationships with others, the planet, and ourselves.
The Convenient Villain
What "Unhinged" reveals is Omarosa’s knack for making her ambition, however ugly or severe, as exhilarating to watch as a horror movie.
Frozen as the Oceans Rise: On “We’re Doomed. Now What?”
Sharon Kunde challenges Roy Scranton’s fatalist view of climate change.
A Mind in Transit: Marina Benjamin on Insomnia
A memoir on the liminal state of sleeplessness and “mind wandering.”
Korean Pastoral: On Yeon-sik Hong’s “Uncomfortably Happily”
Yeon-sik Hong’s delightful and challenging graphic memoir "Uncomfortably Happily" at once seems to adhere to the Western pastoral tradition and to upend it
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