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Palestine Is a Story Away: A Tribute to Refaat Alareer
A tribute to Palestinian writer and activist Refaat Alareer by poet and scholar Mosab Abu Toha.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
The Hold of the Dead Over the Living: A Conversation with Jill Lepore
Julien Crockett talks with Jill Lepore about her new book “The Deadline.”
You’re Such a Character: The Knausgaard Behind Knausgaard
Bob Blaisdell examines the public life of autofiction icon Karl Ove Knausgaard.
Keller
Kim Gordon relays the mythos surrounding her late brother in an excerpt from her upcoming book for LARB Quarterly, no. 40: “Water.”
The Callas Myth
Olivia Giovetti surveys memoirs about the opera diva Maria Callas, on the centenary of her birth.
A Feminist Chorus: On Clara Schulmann’s “Chicanes”
Edmée Lepercq reviews French author Clara Schulmann’s newly translated book-length essay “Chicanes."
Throbbing Between World and Nothing: On Robert Glück’s “About Ed”
Rose Higham-Stainton reviews Robert Glück’s “About Ed.”
Fear and Writing in Xinjiang: On Tahir Hamut Izgil’s “Waiting to Be Arrested at Night” and Perhat Tursun’s “The Backstreets”
Fear and Writing in Xinjiang: On Tahir Hamut Izgil’s “Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide” and Perhat Tursun’s “The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang.”
Leaving Your Lane: A Conversation with Lydia Otero
Tom Zoellner talks to Lydia Otero about her new account of a young adulthood in Los Angeles, “L.A. Interchanges: A Brown & Queer Archival Memoir”
Echoes of the Original: On the Task of Translating Maria Schneider
Hannah Bonner looks at Elisabeth Subrin’s documentary, “Maria Schneider, 1983,” alongside Vanessa Schneider’s memoir, “My Cousin Maria Schneider.”
You’ll Never Make Yourself Fall Asleep: On Marie Darrieussecq’s “Sleepless”
Thom Sliwowski reviews Marie Darrieussecq’s “Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia.”
Conduits to a Feeling: On Sophia Giovannitti’s “Working Girl”
Ayden LeRoux reviews Sophia Giovannitti’s “Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex.”
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