What Daughters Do with Inherited Damage
Two memoirs confront maternal authority and its damage. Jennette McCurdy seeks distance from the past. Arundhati Roy traces how it remains inside literature
Mother Mary Comes to Me
A review of Arundhati Roy’s memoir as a disciplined record of formation whose composure ultimately limits its emotional reach
The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir
Edmund White recounts confession without self-interrogation, allowing anecdote to swell beyond insight.