Memoir articles
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Book Review: 'The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems,' Adrie Kusserow
We live in an epoch of refugees. According to the UN Refugee Agency, as of October 2023 more than 110 million people in our world had been "forcibly displaced" from their homes. This global emergency lends currency and urgency to The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems, a new book by Adrie Kusserow, cultural anthropologist, self-described "ethnographic poet," and chair of the Saint Michael's College sociology and anthropology department. Kusserow has been a relief worker and teacher...
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Miss USA 2019 Cheslie Kryst Details Mental Health Struggles in Posthumous Memoir
Cheslie Kryst's memory lives on. Two years after the pageant star died by suicide at the age of 30, her family is releasing her posthumous memoir, By the Time You Read This: The Space Between
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Knife review: Salman Rushdie’s memoir is a reckoning with his reader – and it’s written with resentment
Salman Rushdie's Knife is a reckoning with his reader, and it is written with resentment, writes Anna Moloney.