Memoir Archives

Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K, for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one...

By Malcolm Knox

Milli was born able to hold her head up, and kept this ability. She had sheeny, topaz eyes, dark...

By Jennifer Kremmer

"I agree with the gay Englishman [Irishman Oscar Wilde] who said you should either look like a work of...

By Lee Tulloch

BELFAST. EARLY 1970s. I am a fourteen-year-old boy on a shopping expedition with my mother. Objective: the purchase of...

By Michael Andrews

SOMETIMES, MY SISTER seemed to be beckoning it, and I would steer well clear of her. Down the back,...

By Andrew Belk

"NOTHING MUCH" WAS the usual reply when asked what was going on. Nothing much went on in the summer...

The woman from County Meath THE WARMTH OF the Dublin day caught everyone by surprise. Through the window I could...

By Frank Brennan

ON A SPRING day in 1971, my husband, my best friend and I set off from Boston, Massachusetts bound...

By Simi Linton

A HEIGHT-ADJUSTIBLE HOSPITAL bed. At first I didn't understand what the nurses meant. For a moment I pictured our...

By Virginia Lloyd

"SINS HAVE LONG shadows." A Chinese student said this to my husband when he heard that John had missed...

By Helena Pastor

ON DECEMBER 31, 1926, from her lodgings on the outskirts of Paris, the exiled Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva, wrote...

By Bei Ling

CHINESE LESSON 1: I was nine and it was dinner time. My father was in monologue mode. He said...

By Brian Castro