Memoir & Essay

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

Not Unpacking but Seeking
A collection of essays on gender, the body, resistance, and the Occupy Movement.
Kyle ProehlAug 29, 2018
Encores of Love and Listening: Sarah Blackwood and Peter Coviello Discuss “Long Players”
“The book is a kind of love letter. Or, more truthfully, several love letters, sewn together into one.”
Sarah BlackwoodAug 26, 2018
- Memoir & Essay
Ecstatic Communion: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Seasons Quartet Conclusion, “Summer”
With “Summer,” the conclusion to his Seasons quartet, Norwegian maestro Karl Ove Knausgaard provides a master class in creating reader-writer intimacy.
Lisa TeasleyAug 21, 2018
- Around the World
- Memoir & Essay
The Keeper of the Keys Tells His Tale
The art and science of understanding an Old Master.
Mike LankfordAug 17, 2018
- Art & Architecture
- Memoir & Essay
From Watching to Participating: Kate Bredeson and Lars Jan Discuss 1968 and Jan’s Stage Production of Joan Didion’s “The White Album”
Kate Bredeson and Lars Jan discuss 1968 and Jan’s stage production of Joan Didion’s “The White Album.”
Kate BredesonAug 16, 2018
Beyond the Lyme Wars
Suzanne Koven applies a clinical lens to “Sick: A Memoir” by Porochista Khakpour.
Suzanne KovenAug 14, 2018
- Memoir & Essay
- Science & Technology
Leaving Rosé Season for a Ragged Happiness
Sonya Lea reviews Kristi Coulter's new essay collection, "Nothing Good Can Come from This."
Sonya LeaAug 8, 2018
- Memoir & Essay
The Prodigal Mom
A new memoir from a celebrated California novelist.
Bonnie JohnsonAug 3, 2018
- Memoir & Essay
WhatsApps with Women #1: Joanna Walsh Talks to Writer Lauren Elkin about Twitter
A WhatsApp conversation between Joanna Walsh, the author of “Break.up,” and Lauren Elkin, the author of “Flâneuse: Women Walk the City.”
Joanna WalshJul 30, 2018
- Fiction
- Memoir & Essay
Reconstructing the “Outlines of a Disappeared World”: An Interview with Philippe Sands
Emily-Rose Baker interviews Philippe Sands, an international lawyer and author whose work and writing focuses on mass killings and the Holocaust.
Emily-Rose BakerJul 26, 2018
The Thin White Dunc: A Jaded Dandy in 1970s New York
A portrait of punk-era New York’s art and music scenes.
Anthony MostromJul 25, 2018
The Black Girl Looks at Other Black Girls: On “This Will Be My Undoing” by Morgan Jerkins
The themes in "This Will Be My Undoing" are the safe, plodding kind expected from so-called diverse writers.
Khanya Khondlo MtshaliJul 24, 2018
- Memoir & Essay