Memoir

Whole Sight

On artistic passion.

  • Charles Johnson

Nabokov’s Gift

A writer's legacy.

  • Roger Boylan

In Search of John Ashbery

Beyond the same old pipings.

  • Forrest Gander

The Beginning of Wisdom

Like many other writers of his time, H.G. Wells thought of himself as a Man of the Future, but his style of self-presentation remained Victorian.

  • Vivian Gornick

Inside Madrasa

A personal history.

  • Ebrahim Moosa

Job’s Hope

On not knowing God.

  • Ben-Zion Gold

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American Legacy

On writing The Vagabonds.

  • Nicholas Delbanco

Conrad’s List

Working at the Eighth Street Bookshop in Greenwich Village.

  • M.G. Stephens

Another Country

Writing The Book of Hard Things.

  • Sue Halpern

City Poems

Ten weeks with the East Harlem Poetry Project.

  • Maureen N. McLane

A Dutchman with Very Dark Eyes and Hair You Could Call Raven-black

Writing Duke of Egypt.

  • Margriet de Moor

Victims for the Prosecution

A survivor of the embassy bombings on the limits of victim impact testimony.

  • Susan F. Hirsch

Under the Influence

The intoxicating power of Kate Braverman's first novel.

  • Rick Moody

The Territory of Trauma

A novelist confronts the ethics and politics of her art.

  • Joyce Hackett

The Last Gentleman

A friend and student remembers Richard Yates.

  • James Crumley

A Comedy with Animals

Ernest Hemingway, Jane Kendall Mason, and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"

  • Alane S. Mason

Primo Levi’s Last Moments

On that tragic Saturday, only his body was smashed.

  • Diego Gambetta

Uncle Franz’s Legacy

A personal history of two Germanies.

  • Vivian Rothstein

Skirmishes

Battling cystic fibrosis.

  • Rosemary Quigley

I. A. Richards at Harvard

The most extraordinary teacher of poetry I ever encountered.

  • Helen Vendler
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