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Born a Crime: A Memoir of Love, Hope, and Resistance
Jeneé Darden on the harrowing love between mother and son in Trevor Noah's "Born a Crime."
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
For When Nothing Happens: Peter Orner on Stories
Shaun Miller on Peter Orner's "Am I Alone Here?"
In Memoriam: The Optimistic Jurist
Judge William A. Norris recalls his path to the Ninth Circuit in "Liberal Opinions: My Life in the Stream of History."
The Heat and the Hustle: Leonardo Lucarelli
Leonardo Lucarelli offers a few choice scenes to savor in "Mincemeat," but is the whole meal worth it?
Ulterior Designs: Marc Nieson’s “Schoolhouse”
Matt Seidel on Marc Nieson's "Schoolhouse."
Getting Her Way: The Latest by Lynne Tillman
Susan Scarf Merrell on Lynne Tillman's "The Complete Madame Realism: And Other Stories."
“I Read the New Ring Lardner and Here Is What I Thought”
On "The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner."
In Her Own Fashion: Being Kenneth Tynan’s Daughter
Dorna Khazeni on Tracy Tynan's memoir "Wear and Tear."
Sowing Wild Oates
Nathan Smith on the prolific Joyce Carol Oates's new essay collection, "Soul at the White Heat."
“My Story Doesn’t Begin When I Was Born”: Micah McCrary Interviews José Orduña
Micah McCrary talks to José Orduña about his memoir, "The Weight of Shadows."
Leo Tolstoy and the Origins of Spiritual Memoir
Thomas Larson evaluates the spiritual and artistic innovation of “Confession” by Leo Tolstoy.
An Interview with Ilan Stavans
Marziyeh Kameli talks to Ilan Stavans.
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