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Dated and Dateless: On Susan Zakin and Brian Cullman’s “A Journal of the Plague Years”
Katie Catulle reviews “A Journal of the Plague Years,” an anthology on the COVID-19 lockdown and aftermath.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
The Nihilism of the Archive: On Iman Mersal’s “Traces of Enayat”
Edmée Lepercq reviews Iman Mersal’s “Traces of Enayat.”
A Living Tableau of Multiculturalism: On Simon Kuper’s “Impossible City”
Jonathan Liebson reviews Simon Kuper’s “Impossible City: Paris in the 21st Century.”
It’s Not My Job to Give You Hope: A Conversation Between Emily Raboteau and Manjula Martin
Manjula Martin speaks with Emily Raboteau about environmental writing and their recent climate crisis memoirs.
This Is Also a Test: On Newborn Island
From underneath a sleeping baby, Nada Alic offers a dispatch “from the first draft of motherhood,” in an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth.”
Some Other I Before Me: On Seeking Guidance From AAPI Memoirs
For AAPI month, Rajpreet Heir writes about the creative guidance she’s found in memoirs by AAPI authors.
The Patient Is a White Gay Man: A Conversation with Jonathan Alexander
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee speaks with Jonathan Alexander about his memoir “Stroke Book: The Diary of a Blindspot.”
Our Future Is Not Foreclosed: A Conversation with Emily Raboteau
Scott Burton interviews Emily Raboteau about “Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against ‘the Apocalypse.’”
I Would Like to Know Her: On Cookie Woolner’s “The Famous Lady Lovers”
Leigh-Michil George reviews Cookie Woolner’s “The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewall.”
A Novelist with a Fury: Reading Arundhati Roy in the Present
Yogita Goyal explores Arundhati Roy’s wide-ranging nonfiction and unflinching political activism.
Learning Uncertainty: On Colombe Schneck’s “Swimming in Paris”
Madeleine Crum reviews Colombe Schneck’s “Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories.”
What Was Haunting Me Was Not Myself: A Conversation with Morgan Parker
Tiffany Troy interviews poet Morgan Parker about her debut book of essays, “You Get What You Pay For.”
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