My grandfather had been arrested by the British colonial government. Why had he been there that day?
An around-the-world story of a terminated pregnancy, a friendship, and shame
In rural China, I began to learn about my great-grandfather, and why people might hate me because of him.
Project Wordsworth (Volume 2) is a storytelling laboratory at the Columbia Journalism School. In this latest version, we introduce The Memory Project, which takes as its inspiration this maxim from William Faulkner: Memory believes before knowing remembers...
Each of these stories begins with a memory. That memory is then examined, questioned, probed and dissected. Is what I recall what really happened? Where does this memory take me? Who was there? Who were they?
If you find a memory that evokes a memory of your own, we invite you to share it with the author...
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