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The Good Wood: On Matthew J. C. Clark’s “Bjarki, Not Bjarki”
Josh Billings reviews Matthew J. C. Clark’s “Bjarki, Not Bjarki: On Floorboards, Love, and Irreconcilable Differences.”
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
A Red Flag for a Bull: On Constance Debré’s “Playboy”
Lazz Kinnamon reviews Constance Debré's "Playboy."
The Thoughts That Almost Killed Us: On Emmeline Clein’s “Dead Weight”
Leah Mandel reviews Emmeline Clein’s “Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm.”
For Potters, Read Wedgwood: On Iris Moon’s “Melancholy Wedgwood”
Mimi Howard reviews Iris Moon’s “Melancholy Wedgwood.”
Making Meaning out of Randomness: On Sheila Heti’s “Alphabetical Diaries”
Julia Berick reviews Sheila Heti’s “Alphabetical Diaries.”
Allegorical Moments: Lyn Hejinian’s Life in Writing
Nine poets and critics commemorate the late Lyn Hejinian.
One-Man Band: A Conversation with Ben Greenman
Jaelani Turner-Williams interviews Ben Greenman, co-author of Sly Stone’s “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin).”
“A Passage to India” on Its 100th Birthday
Sameer Pandya traces the path of E. M. Forster’s classic novel in his own passage to India.
Displays of Faith: On Anna Gazmarian’s “Devout”
Courtney Tenz reviews Anna Gazmarian’s “Devout: A Memoir of Doubt.”
The Journey of a Musical Émigré: On Inna Faliks’s “Weight in the Fingertips”
Herb Randall reviews Inna Faliks’s “Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage.”
Every Ship Is a Passenger Too: On Publishing Today
Chris Molnar considers what it's like to be a writer today.
Through a Grid, Darkly: On Anna Shechtman’s “The Riddles of the Sphinx”
Adrienne Raphel reviews Anna Shechtman’s “The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle.”
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