Articles in Arts in Society tagged with Memoir

Robin D. G. Kelley

Flowers for Farah

In her scholarship, mentoring, and activism, Farah Jasmine Griffin brings a praxis of radical love to an unequal academy.

Randall Horton

The Protagonist in Someone Else’s Memoir

Every city I’ve lived in has been filled with racism, whether out in the open or hidden in an invisible dialogue of economics and housing. Birmingham taught me to never question what it meant to be a Black American.

Brian Teare

Neither Chaos Nor Quest: Toward a Nonnarrative Medicine

Narrative medicine claims to champion the experience of patients—but it does so by requiring that the sick “earn” their care by telling a redemptive tale about what is wrong with them.

The Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

A recording of our virtual literary event with three generations of Black women writers.

Andrew Spieldenner

To Say Goodbye

“I was living in fast-forward, trying desperately to have a life before I died.” A veteran AIDS activist recalls living in the Bay Area during the 1990s, the queer people of color usually left out of the epidemic’s history, and how the decade taught him to value endings.

Houman Barekat

Autofiction’s First Boom Was in Turn-of-the-Century Japan

Newly translated into English, Minae Mizumura’s An I-Novel is a vivid portrait of immigrant displacement and the ironies of our global cultural ecosystem.

Christina Knight, Sonia Sanchez

Straight Down to the Bones

In this searching interview, legendary Black Arts poet Sonia Sanchez discusses the ancestral influences on her work and how art can give us strength.

Deborah Taffa

The Millions

“Healing never restores us to the way we were before getting hurt.” A trip to Machu Picchu ends up offering surprising insights into what it means to be a survivor of the genocide of Native Americans.

Michael McColly

Caring in Viral Times

Indifference toward the most vulnerable has driven the death toll of COVID-19, just as it did during the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Against this backdrop, even small acts of kindness can make a difference.

Peter Coviello

Mercy Hours

On being awestruck by literature, and the necessary pleasures of intimacy—near and remote—during quarantine.

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Articles in Arts in Society tagged with Memoir

Flowers for Farah

The Protagonist in Someone Else’s Memoir

Neither Chaos Nor Quest: Toward a Nonnarrative Medicine

The Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

To Say Goodbye

Autofiction’s First Boom Was in Turn-of-the-Century Japan

Straight Down to the Bones

The Millions

Caring in Viral Times

Mercy Hours

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