Inspired by Nabokov’s famous title Speak, Memory, this issue of Tin House asks, What is memory? How does it work? Reliable, unreliable, manipulated, historical, contradictory — this issue brings you fiction, poetry, interviews, essays, and memoirs revolving around memory. From pure speculation to hard cognitive science, we’re open and curious.

Fiction from Joy Williams, Diane Cook, Diane Williams, Dale Peck, Seth Fried
An excerpt from the memoir The Other Side by Lacy M. Johnson. Non-fiction from Stephen King, Colum McCann, Cheryl Strayed, Jodi Angel, Kevin Barry, Tiffany Briere, Phillip Lopate, and Maggie Nelson

Poetry from C.K. Williams, Craig Morgan Teicher, Caroline Knox, Charlie Smith, Anna McDonald, Joe Wenderoth, Sean Zhuraw, Troy Jollimore, and Lindsay Walker
A conversation between Dana Spiotta and Rachel Kushner
A Readable Feast from Ann Hood

Lost and Founds:
Stephen Sparks on Frances Yates's Art of Memory
Rebecca Makkai on Donner Party book
Hugh Ryan on When We Were Three
Micah Perks on Elizabeth Thomas's Reindeer Moon
Susan Rebecca White on The Edna Lewis Cookbook