Four New Friendship Novels and the Ties That May Not Bind
We grow into our friendships as we grow into our books—the ideals crack, what is lost can be more powerful than what is gained, and what is gained is never absolute.
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Here Is the Needle, This Is the Thread: ‘Safekeeping’ and the Liberation of Memoir
Memoir making is about the needle and the thread, the patchwork and the patches, the careful stitchery—as much about how we remember as what we remember.
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Eroded Tropes and Fears and Consequences: The Millions Interviews Alyson Hagy
Compassion? If we cannot find it, we will see those who aren’t like us as “other,” as enemy. Literature—all art—is essential to human empathy.
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The Signifying Life: In Praise of the Outward-Looking Memoir
Memoir at its very best is the start of a conversation. It makes its interest in readers explicit, offering not just a series of life events, but a deliberate suggestion of what it is to be a human being – to experience confusion, despair, hope, joy, and all that happens in between.
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