Tag: Memoir

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

A new series explores how reading works by global women of color is generative.

When your father is trans, memoir is both personal and political.

With terrorism scares aplenty, how worried should one be?

Poems know what we will feel before we do. That’s why we need them.

In America, life at the edge of racial belonging is not so black and white.

Serving time in Richmond City Jail

Serving in the Israeli army as a foreign volunteer.

More birds appear. Bending against the cold, I watch, name, and name again.

Barbara Rylko-Bauer's A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps.

A conversation with Adam Feinstein.

Karen Green's Bough Down.

Remembering Ficre Ghebreyesus.

In Amanda Knox's new book, teen chick lit gives way to an insightful memoir from behind the prison walls.

It’s as if the plane hits an invisible iceberg. Your new Turkish friend starts praying in what you assume is Arabic.

Your seatmate from Heathrow to Copenhagen is a beautiful young Estonian woman who, thankfully, is talkative.

Alfred Kazin’s raw materials.

Mark Twain tells his own story.

The author joins a slew of Chinese tourists hiking a mountain in Tibet.

The Passions of Arthur Koestler.

On the writings of V. S. Naipaul.