Cinematic: Roger Ebert's "Life Itself"
Since Ebert’s prime, everything has changed.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Dissent: Liu Xiabo's "No Enemies, No Hatred"
In the forefront of calls for democracy in China, Liu has engaged in various forms of dissent.
Mixed Memories
They make one rule: 'Each day, we had to do at least one thing that was forbidden.'
Greeneland
Raymond Chandler once said that great writing, whatever else it does, nags at the minds of subsequent writers.
Golden Age
Art Therapy
At the center of this maelstrom of sexual expression and experimentation, Kusama staunchly maintained her identity as auteur, not as participant.
Discoveries: John Jeremiah Sullivan
Surviving the Cultural Revolution: Xiaoda Xiao’s “The Visiting Suit”
Xiao's powerful memoir of his years at a forced labor camp is written in unflinching, unadorned prose that ably conveys the horrors he witnessed.
The Incompleat Cynic: David Rakoff's "Half Empty"
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