Memoir & Essay

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

Imaginary Children: “The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood”
Ellen Wayland-Smith on Belle Boggs's "The Art of Waiting."
Ellen Wayland-SmithSep 7, 2016
- Gender & Sexuality
- Memoir & Essay
Sil Lai Abrams Blooms in Blackness
Brooke Obie reviews Sil Lai Abrams’s new memoir “Black Lotus: A Woman’s Search for Racial Identity.”
Brooke ObieAug 31, 2016
- Memoir & Essay
What Makes a Memory
Angela Morales shows Alex Espinoza the light.
Alex EspinozaAug 30, 2016
- Memoir & Essay
Foot and Hand on the Gates: “The Fire This Time” and Carving the Canon
Bryan Washington on "The Fire This Time," edited by Jesmyn Ward.
Bryan WashingtonAug 26, 2016
- Memoir & Essay
Her Mother/Herself
Betsy Lerner and Bridge send Karen Karbo to the fridge.
Karen KarboAug 24, 2016
- Memoir & Essay
Welcome to Manville
David McGlynn on “The Hero’s Body” by William Giraldi.
David McGlynnAug 23, 2016
- Memoir & Essay
On Self-Translation
Ilan Stavans reflects on self-translation, and on the lives he has lived in Yiddish, Spanish, Hebrew, and English.
Ilan StavansAug 23, 2016
- Around the World
- Memoir & Essay
A Chaotic Chronicle
Rayyan Al-Shawaf reviews Jessica Valenti’s memoir “Sex Object”.
Rayyan Al-ShawafAug 20, 2016
- Memoir & Essay
Sifting Through “Mortal Trash”
John Domini on Kim Addonizio's "Mortal Trash" and "Bukowski in a Sundress".
John DominiAug 8, 2016
- Memoir & Essay
- Poetry
Chris Kraus and the K-Word
So far, Chris Kraus’s new position in the mainstream orbit of Jill Soloway hasn't produced an assessment of the Jewish questions that pervade Kraus’s books.
Rebecca SonkinAug 5, 2016
- Fiction
- Memoir & Essay
How to Write a Collage-Style Memoir
Tarn Wilson on Christine Hale's "A Piece of Sky, A Grain of Rice".
Tarn WilsonAug 1, 2016
- Memoir & Essay
An Otherwise Confounded Life
Barrie Jean Borich on Christine Crosby's "A Body, Undone".
Barrie Jean BorichJul 31, 2016
- Gender & Sexuality
- Memoir & Essay