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Everyone Feels Deeply Alabamian
Cameron Engwall talks with Alexis Okeowo about her second book, “Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama.”
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
No Sex in the City
Tess Pollok interviews Melissa Febos about her new memoir, “The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex.”
Archive, Appendix, Hoodie, Home
Lana Lin dissects the literary and bodily significance of the appendix.
Destroy Humanism
Eric Vanderwall reviews Peter Behrman de Sinéty’s new translation of French author Pierre Guyotat’s memoir “Idiocy.”
The Ghosts of the Delivery Room
Corinne Cordasco-Pak reviews Erica Stern’s “Frontier: A Memoir and a Ghost Story.”
One Step Removed from Ash
Vanessa Holyoak explores memory and loss after the L.A. fires, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
I Feel Like a Human Bomb Tick Tick Tick
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore reviews the new edition of David Wojnarowicz’s collection “Memories That Smell Like Gasoline.”
The Heart of the Matter
John Lysaker connects with Jeffrey L. Kosky’s “From the Heart: A Memoir and a Meditation on a Vital Organ.”
Common Roots
Martin Dolan explores labor, trade, and shared humanity in Craig Thompson’s “Ginseng Roots.”
Fissure from Within
Alex Tan speaks with Egyptian author Iman Mersal about her new book “Motherhood and Its Ghosts.”
Unsettled Enough
Nitish Pahwa unravels the legal and familial complexities of statelessness in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Control Freaks
Arjun S. Byju employs Emily C. Bloom’s “I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art” to investigate how tools of empowerment set us up for disappointment.
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