Holding the Darkness in Place
A new memoir of love and loss, motherhood, life and death, and the true meaning of “resilience.”...
Travelogue of the Exodus
Charles Dunst reviews Anne Goldman's "Stargazing in the Atomic Age," her search for modern Jewish identity....
How to Read an Artichoke: On George Saunders’s “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain”
Robert Allen Papinchak sits in on the master class of “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain” by George Saunders....
Family Fault Lines: On Nadia Owusu’s “Aftershocks”
A new memoir about growing up on uncertain and shifting ground....
“When They Go Low, We Go High”: Keeping Calm in the Critical Race Memoir
Joel Rhone reads “What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues” by Clifford Thompson in context....
Writing Isn’t a Sacred Activity, It Is an Ordinary Activity: A Conversation with Karl Ove Knausgaard
Bob Blaisdell talks with writer Karl Ove Knausgaard....
African Literature and Digital Culture
The digital impulses of African creativity have fundamentally altered literary culture....
An America That Could Explain: On Barack Obama’s “A Promised Land”
Barack Obama’s new memoir is a book hiding within a book....
Putting America to the Test
A treasure trove of great American essays, from Cotton Mather to Joan Didion....
Letters from Prison: A Conversation with Mike Africa Jr.
A discussion of Tiyo Attallah Salah-El’s “Pen Pal: Prison Letters from a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row.”...
Salvation in the Desert
A compelling, if somewhat patchy, chronicle of the Southwest deserts....
Exploding Clichés: On Éric Chevillard’s Versatile Prose
Michelle Kuo, Jeremy M. Davies, and Daniel Levin Becker discuss Éric Chevillard’s pandemic writing and the challenges of rendering his style into English....
