Memory Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/memory/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:16:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Memory Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/memory/ 32 32 Without the Poet, There Is Only War https://www.publicbooks.org/without-the-poet-there-is-only-war/ Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:00:20 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=58227 “The victims of History are permanently exiled from home, within and without. The practitioners or memory are also: we live as foreigners, as translators.”

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]]> A Heaven Reflected on Earth: The Golden Temple, Amritsar https://www.publicbooks.org/a-heaven-reflected-on-earth-the-golden-temple-amritsar/ Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:00:44 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=58187 Gleaming turrets reflect in the still water, just as, according to the Sikh faith, heaven is reflected on earth.

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]]> Fallout as a Process: Ryo Morimoto on Fukushima https://www.publicbooks.org/fallout-as-a-process-ryo-morimoto-on-fukushima/ Thu, 09 May 2024 15:10:52 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56123 “That’s what my book is really trying to get at: What are the things that we have missed as a result of confronting our own fear of the invisible?”

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]]> A Hole at the Bottom of the Book https://www.publicbooks.org/a-hole-at-the-bottom-of-the-book/ Thu, 08 Feb 2024 16:00:13 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55005 For the writers Annie Ernaux and Hilary Plum, a paradox emerges with each new book: writing attempts “carry to completion” something lived, but also changes the original experience.

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]]> Tickets Are for Remembering https://www.publicbooks.org/tickets-are-for-remembering/ Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:00:51 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=54709 Playbills, programs, tickets: such physical documents are no longer part of seeing a show on Broadway. Does it matter?

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]]> Ingrid Rojas Contreras on “The Man Who Could Move Clouds” https://www.publicbooks.org/ingrid-rojas-contreras/ Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:00:51 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53031 “I realized that if I was going to write a story about healers, I also had to write a story about healing.”

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]]> Socialist Nostalgia, Cuban State Power https://www.publicbooks.org/socialist-nostalgia-cuban-state-power/ Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:00:12 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52824 Is it ever possible to reconcile clashing visions of national memory?

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]]> Nostalgia’s Empire: A Conversation with Grafton Tanner and Johny Pitts https://www.publicbooks.org/nostalgias-empire-a-conversation-with-grafton-tanner-and-johny-pitts/ Thu, 08 Jun 2023 15:00:43 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52596 Nostalgia is both a threat and a refuge.

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]]> They’re Not Metaphorical Demons: Mariana Enríquez and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra https://www.publicbooks.org/theyre-not-metaphorical-demons-mariana-enriquez-and-magali-armillas-tisyera/ Fri, 02 Jun 2023 15:00:53 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52561 “As a horror trope, the child is always scary. It turns our notions of purity, innocence, violence, upside down.”

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]]> Saying Goodbye to Childhood: An Interview with Javier Zamora https://www.publicbooks.org/saying-goodbye-to-childhood-an-interview-with-javier-zamora/ Thu, 20 Apr 2023 15:00:37 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=51760 “I hope people will see the heartbreak of a little kid having to grow up and say goodbye to his childhood in order to survive.”

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