topic: memoir

After graduating college at the age of 21, Warscapes contributor Belén Fernández exiled herself from the United States and began traveling...

History records that when Mahatma Gandhi raised a handful of salt in 1930, he shook the mighty British Empire. But history, as we know it,...

Chris Abani is easily one of most important voices in literature today. He has published over a dozen books and is the recipient of the PEN...

Sri Lanka, 2009: Reflections on Eastern Muslim Survival at the Close of the War May 2009 marked the end of nearly thirty years of civil war...

Rafia Zakaria is a Jill of many trades, serving as an attorney, a human rights activist, a columnist, and an author. Her interests are...

We make snap judgments about others on a day-to-day basis whether we realize it or not. We do this partially because of our wiring for...

Houses in small towns have strange nicknames. My parents' house, for instance, is known to the residents of the locality as White House –...

"I do remember some happy moments, yes, but there was always a gaping hole that could not be filled. Sometimes I am attacked by a profound...