Starting Somewhere: Pico Iyer on Stillness
Iyer wants to make the conscious practice of stillness palatable to everyone.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Sentences and Paragraphs to Make Old Age Bearable
"Hall tells us the meanest truth in such a way that we can smile about it."
Grief Is a Two-Way Street
"Mockett’s travels in Japan affirm the lost art of pilgrimage."
Becoming a Man: A Memoir of Sex, Gender, Trauma, and Transformation
McBee shows us what it is to have earned a name, “Thomas,” as well as the pronoun “he.”
Stretching Out
"My ideal audience would be every literate person on earth, minus anyone I’m related to or grew up with."
Immigrant Lessons
"A writer can’t change how it was, but he can say it."
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.
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.
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