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Memoir

White Buffalo

Keep your mind in hell, and despair not

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Halensee

A father’s guide to Nabokov’s Berlin

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Both Sides Now

Domination and abuse on the high school debate circuit

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The Girl in the Picture

Precocious puberty and its reflection

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The Old Imperium

Learning to live with my aging mind

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Her Kind

On losing and finding my mind

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Good Mother

Custody and care in the shadow of colonization

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The Silent Type

On (possibly) being Bob Dylan’s son

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False Labor

Giving up on motherhood

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On Defense

Twenty-five years of fighting mass incarceration in court

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A Litany for Survival

Giving birth as a black woman in America

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Carrying On

My first years in America

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The Cancer Chair

Is suffering meaningless?

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Notes on a Crisis

A battle to restore my vision

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Love and Acid

On the road with a secret weapon

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What it Means to Be Alive

Decoding a father’s farewell

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Nightmares at 20,000 Feet

On the dread of looking down

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We Were So Happy Then

Life in the new South Africa

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Orphan Bachelors

Exclusion and Confession, the two slamming doors of America

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Long Shot

The story of a Kurdish sniper

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They Dance Cheek to Cheek

A contemplation of my parents’ marriage

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Two Years in Auschwitz

A personal history of the Holocaust

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Exile

And a year of trying to find a road back from personal and public shame

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The Fountain Pen

From the journal I did not keep

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Looking for Calley

How a young journalist untangled the riddle of My Lai

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Nothing But

The untruths of memory

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The Human Factor

How I learned the real meaning of dissent

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