Beneath the Craft, Your Face in Mine Is Only Skin Deep
In his innovative debut novel — Your Face in Mine — author Jess Row explores the the possibility of changing races, but doesn’t go more than skin deep.
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Seeds of Grass
The origins of American Bohemia in — where else — Greenwich Village, before the Civil War.
The View from His Words
W. S. Merwin
Foraging for Love
“But romantic love is not where Chin’s memoir starts. Like a skilled forager, we start slowly.”
Bonhoeffer Co-Opted
Contributor Joel Looper on Charles Marsh's "Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer"
What Female Characters?
Hannah Harris Green on Zia Haider Rahman’s Debut Novel
Bright Home, Dark Heart
Besotted: Writers and Their Dogs
Linda Gray Sexton (daughter of Anne Sexton) on the healing value of dogs.
The Other Vietnam Syndrome
A Korean take on the dirty business of the Vietnam War.
Limits to Knowing
Marriage, Bennington Style: Ivy Pochoda on Susan Scarf Merrell’s “Shirley”
Susan Scarf Merrell's "Shirley" is neither a tribute nor a derivation.
What Was Best About the World
Tiffany Gibert confronts the end of society in a new novel by Emily St. John Mandel.
The Arts, Paths, and Myths of Yoga
"'Yoga emerged in India as a means to transcend suffering,' begins Debra Diamond, the gifted Sackler curator of the exhibition and editor of this 300-plus page edition of exquisite reproductions."
“Pick a side, we’re at war!”
Wendy Doniger's "The Hindus: An Alternative History"
Cool Characters
Clarke C. Cooke on the evolution of black crime fiction.
Analog, Again: Jack White’s “Language Lessons”
Jack White’s Third Man Records launches its publishing wing with Language Lessons: Volume 1, a monument to White’s stalwart analog sensibility in the digital age.
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