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Memoir
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
September 28, 2012
Adam Kirsch
Past Lives: A Memoir of Family Secrets and Lies
September 26, 2012
Molly Fischer
Boho Blues: What To Do When Your Brooklyn Neighborhood Loses Its Edge
August 22, 2012
Frank Bures
A Very Particular Place
August 14, 2012
Jason Farago
Revolutionary Road
July 19, 2012
Eric Been
Les Bises
March 1, 2012
Peter Green
The Story's About You
February 28, 2012
Joshua Yaffa
The Indignity of Labor
January 11, 2012
Elisabeth Zerofsky
The Memory and The Pity
December 22, 2011
Perry Link
Realism's Return

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