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Secrets and Lies
Kim came to the DPRK to escape her sorrows. But she should have known that a place with such systemic problems could not possibly offer her solace.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Notes on a Native Daughter: Joan Didion at 80
Because Tom Wolfe and because James Baldwin and Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr, but because Didion most of all, an American essay today without the sudden and revelatory personal aside is hardly an American essay at all.
Finding Words
"… it is a decent game, English that is, but everything real happens in Spanish."
Closing the Circle
These are the longings of an artist’s offspring.
Fathoming Family
Steven Church seems to get better with every book he writes.
Channeling the Emotion of the Moment
Nine years after the empty fruit bowl, “My Story” is a highly calculated act of self-presentation.
Scatterings
After his wife tragically dies in a canoeing accident, Gary Ferguson returns her ashes to the wilderness.
The Philosophy of Pugilistic Spectacle
Howley's book is not meant to convert anyone to the beauties of mixed martial arts (though it may).
Dialects by Design
Alison Lurie talks about "what people might see in buildings, and what they were saying to us."
Echo of Thunder: Earthquakes Swarm and Another Wild Horse Herd Is Disappeared
Wild mustangs are disappearing at an alarming rate.
The Junk Artist
D’Ambrosio falls into a wide range of subjects, including Native American whaling, housing developments, and tabloid martyr Mary Kay Letourneau.
The Major and the Minor: Meghan Daum Bears Down
Like any good personal essayist, Meghan Daum knows how to dive and how to surface.
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