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Memoir

Ithaca

by Will Self,

Rewriting my mother's diaries

My Mother’s Oysters

by Rosanna Warren,

Recollections of Breton summers

Saturn Return

by Andrew Weil,

Scenes from the life of a psychedelic pioneer

Trapdoor

by Kathleen Alcott,

Where the past overtakes you

Mere Belief

by Sallie Tisdale,

Sliding down the curve of forgetting

The Anatomy of Panic

by Michael W. Clune,

A personal history of anxiety

Numinous Strangers

by Lisa Wells,

The enduring allure of pilgrimage

Frog

by Anne Fadiman,

What happens to the pets that happen to you

White Buffalo

by Christian Wiman,

Keep your mind in hell, and despair not

Halensee

by Ryan Ruby,

A father’s guide to Nabokov’s Berlin

Both Sides Now

by Tess McNulty,

Domination and abuse on the high school debate circuit

The Girl in the Picture

by Madeleine Watts,

Precocious puberty and its reflection

The Old Imperium

by John Crowley,

Learning to live with my aging mind

Her Kind

by Naomi Jackson,

On losing and finding my mind

Portrait of the Coyote as a Young Man

by David Treuer,

Coming of age in Bemidji

Good Mother

by Sierra Crane Murdoch,

Custody and care in the shadow of colonization

The Silent Type

by Sam Sussman,

On (possibly) being Bob Dylan’s son

False Labor

by Lena Dunham,

Giving up on motherhood

On Defense

by Sergio De La Pava,

Twenty-five years of fighting mass incarceration in court

A Litany for Survival

by Naomi Jackson,

Giving birth as a black woman in America

Carrying On

by Lynn Freed,

My first years in America

The Cancer Chair

by Christian Wiman,

Is suffering meaningless?

Notes on a Crisis

by Janine di Giovanni,

A battle to restore my vision

Love and Acid

by Chris Rush,

On the road with a secret weapon

What it Means to Be Alive

by Justin Taylor,

Decoding a father’s farewell

Nightmares at 20,000 Feet

by Lisa Wells,

On the dread of looking down

We Were So Happy Then

by Lynn Freed,

Life in the new South Africa

Orphan Bachelors

by Fae Myenne Ng,

Exclusion and Confession, the two slamming doors of America

Long Shot

by Azad Cudi,

The story of a Kurdish sniper

They Dance Cheek to Cheek

by Kenneth E. Hartman,

A contemplation of my parents’ marriage

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