polemoir

Noun

polemoir (countable and uncountable, plural polemoirs)

1. (countable, neologism) A literary work fusing polemics with memoirism.
   • Nora’s, however, does organic on steroids — not that there would be a trace of those in her food — at what is billed as the nation’s first certified organic restaurant, as she reveals in “My Organic Life: How a Pioneering Chef Helped Shape the Way We Eat Today,” which is part polemic and part...2015 May 7, Karen Heller, “The book of Nora: The organic restaurant pioneer pens a memoir”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2015
   • Taken together, the book is worthwhile as a ‘polemoir’ that seeks to open up the never-ending space in the classification of modern literary works.2025 January 14, Sunday Oyeleke, “Sunday Oyeleke: A Rejoinder: Dele Farotimi’s ‘Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System’ as a ‘polemoir’”, in Peoples Gazette, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2025
2. (neologism, uncountable) The genre of such works.
   • To give some weight to words in what he describes with typically elegant irony as “this mandatory waiting period” before one can speak of the unspeakable, El Akkad devises a form that might be called polemoir, a fusion of polemic and memoir.2025 February 25, Fintan O’Toole, “How Will the West Look Back on the Crisis in Gaza?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2025