Stitching Out a Life in Graphic Memoir
With "Baddawi," Leila Abdelrazaq joins women cartoonists engaged in life writing. Not just Satrapi, but Alison Bechdel, Lynda Barry, and Phoebe Gloeckner.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Luminous Loss
Elizabeth Alexander explores her deeply expansive identity as the loving wife, the smart wife, the American wife in 'The Light of the World'.
Never Too Far
Oliver Sacks the doctor removes his white coat and beneath it reveals one helluva handsome biker who hung out with Hells Angels and played with death.
Outspoken: Quiet Lightning and the Generation of Literature
Quiet Lightning is a nonprofit literary organization, a submission-based reading series, a publisher, a film producer, a bi-annual magazine, a book and film contest, and the initiator of a yearlong ekphrastic project.
The Serial Reader
The new Vivian Gornick memoir isn't exactly "new," but it's still electrifying.
Without a Whit of Caution
The debut essay collection by Kate Carroll de Gutes considers the difficulties of long-term commitment, describing flailing and failing marriages.
Black Girl
Tracy K. Smith, in her memoir "Ordinary Light," urgently insists on the nuances of African-American identity.
Poetry and Persona
The essays in Queen of the Fall describe, with wrenching precision, a woman's inability to have children.
Finding Your Shambolic Magic
"In the All-Night Café" describes the year before the release of "Tigermilk" and helps to explain how Belle and Sebastian's sound was a product of their environment.
Questionable Candor and PTSD
Could a woman's desire to get close to a convicted murderer stem from PTSD?
Rules and Rituals, Time Capsules and Tap Handles
Heidi Julavits talks with Chantal McStay about keeping a diary and "The Folded Clock."
The Method Singer
In his new biography, John Szwed argues Billie Holiday was a method actor: she burrowed to the core of the song, determined what type of person might be voicing such sentiments in what kind of situation, and let that guide her interpretation of it.
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