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Eric Garner and Me
Clifford Thompson shares his experiences with racism.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
A Drink (or Four) With Kent Russell
Jordan G. Teicher on Kent Russell's "I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son."
Reading Nicholson Baker with J.C. Hallman
Reading, Hallman insists, is an exuberant, orgasmic relationship …
Ode to Animals
“Human beings are degrading ecosystems at a rate unprecedented in human history,” Deming writes.
A Girl’s Guide to Sexual Purity
A candid, captivating personal essay about a young woman’s sexual awakening by way of Christian youth groups, traumatic sexual assault, and an inappropriate confidant in the form of a youth pastor with boundary issues.
June’s Mixtape
Jonathan Leal on Domingo Martinez's continuing memoir.
I Am a Fucking Plagiarist
“I was a plagiarist already — but that’s the moment I became a fucking plagiarist.”
No Wave Feminism
Like Didion’s Year of Magical Thinking, Kim Gordon’s memoir is the product of wonder at — and the struggle to reconcile with — how the life-changing loss of one’s partner could be so profoundly ordinary.
The Subversive and Liberating World of G. Willow Wilson
"Kamala, the product of Disney-owned Marvel, managed to be more than a gimmick."
On the New Literary Tourism
Why do writers chase down dead writers?
Bernard Cooper on Art and Life
Bernard Cooper on the way life does, indeed, follow art.
Fog Chaser
On fog, memory, San Francisco, and Kyle Boelte's memoir.
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