When I was young, my mom had the foresight to ask my grandparents to fill out a memory book for me. Now an heirloom, the book captured the details of their childhoods and their lives — those precious ...

This Mother's Day, many of us will also be thinking about our grandmothers, great-grandmothers and ancestors. The connection between grandmother and grandchild is at the heart of "Memory Garden," ...

South African-born literary scholar Dennis Walder recently published an evocative life story called Amid the Alien Corn: A Son’s Memoir. In it, he tracks how, even as a child, he became aware that his ...

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The author Nate DiMeo is out with a new book called, “The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past," a collection of stories from and inspired by his popular podcast of the same name. In both the ...

A New York Times journalist and Burges High School alumna, Jazmine Ulloa, returns to her alma mater to celebrate the release ...

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Drawing from memory, reportage and personal loss, the author Hoihnu Hauzel pieces together stories of displacement, grief and resilience, documenting how ordinary lives were upended by the conflict.

Museums are strange things, Jack Ashby, assistant director of the University Museum of Zoology in Cambridge, UK, points out in his new book, Nature’s Memory: Behind the scenes at the world’s natural ...