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Memoir
March 10, 2017
Charlotte Shane
Ariel Levy’s Infuriating Memoir of Privilege and Entitlement
'The Rules Do Not Apply' buys into the myth that feminism promises each woman that she can have whatever she wants.
October 18, 2016
Magazine
Rachel Syme
All of Her
Marina Abramović’s memoir is her most revealing performance yet.
September 9, 2016
Kathryn Joyce
Girl From the North Country
Blair Braverman confronts hostility and harassment in her memoir of adventure in the wilderness.
August 8, 2016
Jesse McCarthy
Visible Men
Mychal Denzel Smith's memoir reckons with racial injustice, and tells the story of his political education.
May 9, 2016
Sarah Marshall
Memoirs of a School Shooter’s Mother
Her story is hard to share, but Sue Klebold's book about her son shows Columbine from a new perspective.
March 29, 2016
Sarah Marshall
Kathryn Harrison’s Family Secrets
The author of 'The Kiss' returns with essays about a difficult upbringing.
January 15, 2016
William Giraldi
The Unforgivable Half Truths of Memoir
A decade since James Frey's memoir was exposed, we're still addicted to fiction packaged as truth.
July 10, 2015
Laura Marsh
The Secrets of the Goldman Sachs Elevator Are Better Left to Twitter
July 7, 2015
Evan Kindley
My Idol, the "Worst Rapper Ever"
March 5, 2015
Shulem Deen
How Purim, Judaism’s Boozy Rejoinder to Halloween, Shook My Faith
On Purim, the Talmud says, “one is obligated to get so drunk that he doesn’t know the difference between Haman and Mordechai.”
August 8, 2014
Philip Maughan
Geoff Dyer: “There Should Be an Annual Festival Devoted to Me”
August 4, 2014
Anne Applebaum
Hillary Clinton's Crystal Ball
How "Hard Choices" predicts her presidential campaign
July 27, 2014
Franklin Foer
A Newly Rediscovered Novel Is the 'Catch-22' of World War I
May 18, 2014
Adam Kirsch
Yet Another Writer Has Admitted Faking Her Holocaust Memoir
The long, strange history of made-up Shoah stories
March 7, 2013
Todd Gitlin
Dissident or Informant? The Murky Memory of Christa Wolf
February 19, 2013
Marco Roth
Kill Your Darlings
Is writing a memoir like murdering your family?
February 12, 2013
John Glassie
How Literature Saved This Book
January 11, 2013
Christopher Bray
Excess Baggage—The Voluminous Diaries of Christopher Isherwood
November 29, 2012
Leslie Jamison
Fever Dreams—Investigating the Memoir
October 22, 2012
Dayo Olopade
The Poet Politician—Chinua Achebe’s Civil War
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