Why We Read Memoirs

by John Wilson

We read memoirs to understand, and write them to be understood.  Continue Reading »

9 Aug 2019

An Incredible Lightness of Being

by Midge Decter

The novelist and critic Mary McCarthy, who died in 1989, was up to the time of her death working on a memoir of her life in the late 1930s, in effect a sequel to her two previous autobiographical works, Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood and How I Grew. Perhaps she meant by the end . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 1992