Tag: Memoir

Essiah Ritchie

Father of War

My son’s violent illness humbled my sense of control and transformed my understanding of what it means to parent.

Samuel R. Delany

Ash Wednesday

“I’m known as a sex radical, but the fact is I felt there was a world of experience that had been slipping away.”

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.

Wendy A. Woloson

Selling Hope

A cancer diagnosis reveals how pervasive consumerism has become, infecting even the stuff meant to heal us.

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.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Unlearning Our Settler Colonial Tongues

On language and belonging.

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.

The Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

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

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.

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