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Hua Hsu remembers his friendship with Ken at Berkeley in the 1990s, zines, mixtapes and arguments about what was cool, and the random act of violence that ended it.
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An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
A classicist's elderly father audits his seminar on the Odyssey, and together they take a Mediterranean cruise retracing Odysseus's route.
Just Kids
Patti Smith remembers her years with Robert Mapplethorpe in New York, from the Chelsea Hotel to their first successes, two young artists holding each other up through hunger and ambition.
The Year of Magical Thinking
After her husband's sudden death and her daughter's hospitalisation, Didion keeps a forensic record of what magical thinking her grief conjures and what it refuses to.
Know My Name
The woman known in court only as Emily Doe writes back against the Brock Turner trial transcript and reclaims her own voice, her own family, and her own sentences.
Blue Nights
In the aftermath of her daughter Quintana's death, Didion turns the pale light of late summer on her own motherhood, her own failing body, and what it means to be the last one left.
Crying in H Mart
The Japanese Breakfast frontwoman writes about her Korean mother's cancer and death, and about what Korean food means when the person who taught you to eat it is gone.
M Train
Patti Smith writes from her Greenwich Village café over black coffee, mapping what she has lost and loved: her late husband Fred, pilgrimages to writers' graves and the Continental Drift Club she belongs to.
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
Seven weeks after his mother killed herself, Handke wrote this compact account of her life to keep her from vanishing into the ordinary.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Two best friends and their creative partner build a video game empire, and the decades-long collaboration becomes a story about love, loss, and the art we leave behind.
H Is for Hawk
After her father's sudden death, a Cambridge historian buys a goshawk and withdraws into training it, alongside a reading of T. H. White's own failed attempt.
Men We Reaped
Jesmyn Ward remembers five young Black men from her Mississippi Gulf Coast town, her brother among them, who died in the space of four years, and asks what the country takes from them.
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston grows up in her family's laundry in Stockton, California, on her mother's ghost stories and Chinese legends, and sets them beside her own life as the American daughter of immigrants.