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In Thomas Wolfe’s posthumously published novel You Can’t Go Home Again (1940), protagonist George Webber finds himself in Germany amid the rise of Nazism in the 1930s and “face to face with somethi…

On the nature of autobiographical memory

Jill Talbot on secret messages between mother and daughter.

For what, after all, is more monstrous than a woman who wants?

Gabe Montesanti’s Drag Thing: A Memoir of Mania and Mirrors chronicles the author’s emergence into drag culture and her evolution into an unclassifiable, genderfluid “drag thing.”Through experimentati...

It’s 1997. Or maybe ’98. My father is still alive. I’m spending Christmas Eve alone. I forget why. I must have been nursing some wound I no longer remember. No, I do remember. I just don’t want to tal...

Marcia Aldrich Consent: I Remember I remember the spring of my freshman year at Wells College, while living in Main, I had set up my little Sears electric typewriter that my father had bought m...

Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It turns fifty this year. Its author was a retired English professor from the University of Chicago who, at the point late in life when he began work on the bo…

SVEN BIRKERTS <br> Why do we keep hold of certain things, and nothing of others? Now I can remember, with almost cinematic granularity, an afternoon when a veterinarian came to our fifth-grade class t...

Jill Talbot I take the Jefferson exit off I-30 East, looking for a payphone I know my mother used once. 1974, 1975. I was four or five, watching out the window from the backseat of our orange VW Bug....