Mixed Memories
They make one rule: 'Each day, we had to do at least one thing that was forbidden.'
They make one rule: 'Each day, we had to do at least one thing that was forbidden.'
E.C. McCarthyFeb 27, 2012
Hefner’s sexual tastes — sunny blondes with big boobs, in the main — became an American archetype.
Michaelangelo MatosFeb 14, 2012
Raymond Chandler once said that great writing, whatever else it does, nags at the minds of subsequent writers.
Judith FreemanFeb 3, 2012
IN THE PREFACE TO THIS REMARKABLE memoir, Richard Seaver claims that he had never intended to publish it. And indeed he died before he could complete...
Loren GlassFeb 2, 2012
on the mythology of film school.
Jonathan ZimmermanJan 28, 2012
A MERE 60 YEARS AGO, at the front end of my love-hate affair with the published word, I went to work for my first "real" newspaper, an actual evening...
Mort PerskyJan 27, 2012
At the center of this maelstrom of sexual expression and experimentation, Kusama staunchly maintained her identity as auteur, not as participant.
Sharon MizotaJan 25, 2012
Cairo is a city often captured by stereotype: its unruly traffic, pollution, slums, decay, and general chaos, framed as an insult to the Pharaohs.
Frederick DeknatelJan 18, 2012
JUST WHEN YOU THINK AMERICA is going down the tubes, you read John Sullivan's essays (or David Foster Wallace's, or Rebecca Solnit's) and you think...
Susan Salter ReynoldsJan 7, 2012
THE PAST DECADE HAS seen a surge of memoirs written by Iranian woman in exile, many of whom share their stories at the peril of angering or shaming...
Sholeh WolpeAug 25, 2011
Both of them deaf to the fiddle in the hands Of the death's-head shadowing their song. These Flemish lovers flourish; not for long. Yet desolation...
Veronica Gonzalez PeñaAug 17, 2011
It’s absurd, but I almost feel that the tourists walking back to their cars can see the striped jacket wrapped around my shoulders and hear my wooden...
Casey O'NeilAug 16, 2011
Richard’s amazing new memoir, House of Prayer No. 2, avoids the Old South clichés.
Darcey SteinkeJul 26, 2011
Xiao's powerful memoir of his years at a forced labor camp is written in unflinching, unadorned prose that ably conveys the horrors he witnessed.
Vanessa HuaJul 22, 2011
THE BOOK'S COVER looks like a child’s cartoon: a smiling bunny and a chipmunk, a boy in a boat on a pond, two bluebirds holding up a banner. Only the...
D. Charles WhitneyJul 22, 2011
"Must You Go?" is both a wife’s reflection and a historian’s.
Keri WalshJul 3, 2011
Bush ended his term in office with the lowest approval rating since they started keeping approval ratings.
Laurie BenensonJul 2, 2011
On my trip to Poland this past winter, I brought the perfect book as my traveling companion.
Louise SteinmanJun 27, 2011
A story of "a very imperfect life lived among very imperfect houses," written in homage to the yearnings that have fueled her lifelong game of house.
Erica WetterJun 20, 2011
WE DRIVE BY A CAR ACCIDENT and crane our necks. We want to see the worst: the mutilated passenger, the driver crumpled against the wheel. If a...
Diana WagmanJun 17, 2011
It’s a moral dilemma described in devastating images of both his mother’s failures and the author’s own bottomless faults.
Duff BrennaMay 23, 2011
Despite how much she has been dissected, analyzed, and worshipped, something about Marilyn Monroe remains forever elusive.
Jocelyn HeaneyMay 10, 2011
There’s a voice that, while still a bit controlled, opens on to something savage, even ugly.
Michael TolkinMay 9, 2011
The movie doesn't have the characters from the book -- it has movie stars.
Clara MokriApr 8, 2011