By Lola Jacobs

It is not what I get, that will define me. It’s what I do with it.

By Nikolaos Panaousis

A perfectly arranged path of book exploration.

By Victoria Merlino

“Nobody in the room cried, but my grandmother did ask me if I wanted cake afterward. For me, this was the end of Billy Edkins: not with a bang but with a forkful of chocolate.”

by Chioma Nnadi

How food shapes one’s identity.

by Olivier Dumont

A young man’s journey to connect with his extraordinary grandfather.

by Stephanie Jones

A coming of age story about two queer girls falling in love in Jamaica.

by Kevin Cleary

“We both stopped at nothing to please our partners while simultaneously turning a blind eye to our own needs.”

by Charles Tabasso

A story about a young man's journey exploring Toyko and himself.

by Rebecca Simon

Higher offers a look at one girl’s discovery of a regionally popular opioid and her stifling addiction to it. However, it’s useful to take heed of the universal components of the story. Not particular to the author is her introduction to heroin, her abrupt graduation to dependency, and her struggle to kick it. While the memoir belongs solely to the author and elicits certain sentiments, it is also didactic—a piece for analysis.