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Another Chance at This Dilapidated Earth
Lauren Markham considers personal and planetary grief, longing, and estrangement in her review of Laura Marris’s “The Age of Loneliness.”
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
32 Strips of Paper
Tom Zoellner considers Tim Z. Hernandez’s “They Call You Back: A Lost History, A Search, A Memoir,” about the book that helped solve mysteries associated with a 1948 plane crash.
Every Abyss Is a Matter of Time
Alina Stefanescu reviews “The Use of Photography” by Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie, newly translated into English by Alison L. Strayer.
A Technique for Managing the Obliteration of My Self
James Webster reviews Lucy Ives’s essay collection “An Image of My Name Enters America.”
One Community, Undivided, Uniquely on This Side of the Border
Frank Bergon reviews two new collections from Dagoberto Gilb: “New Testaments” and “A Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands.”
The Story of a Generation
Michele Willens reviews Connie Chung’s memoir, which recalls her barrier-shattering career in TV news journalism.
The Weight of Estrangement
Grace Linden reviews Deborah Levy’s “The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies.”
Everyone’s from Somewhere
Matthew Ritchie reviews “There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension” by Hanif Abdurraqib.
Arizona! You Won’t Believe It!
Michael Downs reviews Richard Grant’s “A Race to the Bottom of Crazy: Dispatches from Arizona.”
More than Human
Erika Howsare reviews Kapka Kassabova’s “Anima: A Wild Pastoral.”
John E. Mack and the Unbelievable UFO Truth
Michael J. Socolow looks back at the controversial career of John E. Mack, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Harvard psychiatrist who wrote best-selling books on UFO abduction.
Tastes Like Home
Yangyang Cheng reviews Michelle T. King’s “Chop Fry Watch Learn” and Curtis Chin’s “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.”
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