Porochista Khakpour Archive
Imagination and Repetition in Chronic Illness Memoir
The aesthetic project of chronic illness memoir is inescapably tied to its political project. Within the wider genre, we might discern a politics of repetition.
The Meaning of Food in Eat Joy
In this 2019 anthology, Natalie Eve Garrett collects short essays by 31 different writers, each with a recipe linked to it. The essays reveal how foods hold the shape of memories and people and places, nourishment intertwined with the forces that shaped it.
Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity by Porochista Khakpour
Porochista Khakpour’s essay collection is a fearless reflection of an immigrant searching for home and for herself.
The Narrative Messiness of Chronic Illness
Memoirs from Paul Kalanithi, Lucy Grealy, Jean-Dominique Bauby, and Porochista Khakpour teach us about turning the story of an ailing body into a work of art.