Memoir Archives

Two Years in Auschwitz

by Marco Lauer,

A personal history of the Holocaust

Exile

by John Hockenberry,

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

The Fountain Pen

by Lore Groszmann Segal,

From the journal I did not keep

Looking for Calley

by Seymour M. Hersh,

How a young journalist untangled the riddle of My Lai

Nothing But

by Geoff Dyer,

The untruths of memory

The Human Factor

by John R. MacArthur, Ludvík Vaculík,

How I learned the real meaning of dissent

All the Last Wars

by Charles Glass, Don McCullin,

Around the world with the Goya of conflict photography

Eat, Memory

by David Wong Louie,

A life without food

My Perfect Season

by Mark Edmundson,

Playing it safe in the Pee Wee League

The Old Man

by David Means,

A writer remembers his father

Isn’t It Romantic?

by Gemma Sieff,

Looking for love in the age of Tinder

Avian Voices

by James Seay,

Trying not to kill a mockingbird

Surviving a Failed Pregnancy

by Vanessa Gregory,

The medical ordeal no one wants to talk about

In Search of a Stolen Fiddle

by Abe Streep,

From the pawnshops of Portland to the con men of Craigslist

Honky, Napoleon, and the Empress Wu

by Lynn Freed,

Memories of a South African childhood

Christmas in Prison

by Kenneth E. Hartman,

Greeting the holidays in an age of mass incarceration

The Seductive Catastrophe

by Frederic Morton,

Why the world went to war in 1914

The Oa

by Colin McAdam,

On the pleasures and perils of whisky

Loving Las Vegas

by Colson Whitehead,

What the prudes get wrong about Sin City

Killing Deer

by Jean Halley,

A hard death on the high road

Othello’s Son

by Frederic Morton,

A racial education

Other Types of Poison

by Rebecca Makkai,

Three legends

An Uncommon Pain

by Sallie Tisdale,

Living with the mystery of headache

Life During Wartime

by Janine di Giovanni,

Remembering the siege of Sarajevo

Sliver of Sky

by Barry Lopez,

Confronting the trauma of sexual abuse

I Am Your Conscious, I Am Love

by Hilton Als,

A paean 2 Prince

Contest of Words

by Ben Lerner,

High school debate and the demise of public speech

Breeds of America

by William Melvin Kelley,

Coming of age and coming of race

From Eden to Eton

by Pico Iyer,

One boy’s transatlantic education

About Motorcycles

by Frederick Seidel,

My father was a hunchback. He had an accident on his bicycle when he was a child, which ended with his falling into a coal cellar, a fall of thirty…

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