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Autobiographical memory

Jam on Pasta

by Hanif Kureishi,

From Shattered, by Hanif Kureishi, which will be published in February by Ecco. On December 26, 2022, while Kureishi was on vacation in Rome, he fainted, injured his spine in the…

Now and Then

by Rebecca Solnit,

The present is by common definition the instant between the not yet and the already, a moment as narrow and treacherous as a tightrope. But you might instead define it…

Remember me

by Harper’s Staff,

Memoria ex machina

by Marshall Fisher,

Releasing the memoirist within

by Mark Leyner,

When hope and history don’t rhyme

by Lore Groszmann Segal,

Family photo albums

by Michael Ignatieff,

Memory as Enrichment

by Rollo Walter Brown,

The oldest case on the calendar

by Meredith Nicholson,

A relic

by Max Sir Beerbohm,

A ghost

by Lafcadio Hearn,

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