polemoirEtymologyBlend of polemic + memoir.nounA 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 memoir, a polemoir — and no recipes.”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.”