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The Ghosts of the Delivery Room
Corinne Cordasco-Pak reviews Erica Stern’s “Frontier: A Memoir and a Ghost Story.”
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
One Step Removed from Ash
Vanessa Holyoak explores memory and loss after the L.A. fires, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
I Feel Like a Human Bomb Tick Tick Tick
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore reviews the new edition of David Wojnarowicz’s collection “Memories That Smell Like Gasoline.”
The Heart of the Matter
John Lysaker connects with Jeffrey L. Kosky’s “From the Heart: A Memoir and a Meditation on a Vital Organ.”
Common Roots
Martin Dolan explores labor, trade, and shared humanity in Craig Thompson’s “Ginseng Roots.”
Fissure from Within
Alex Tan speaks with Egyptian author Iman Mersal about her new book “Motherhood and Its Ghosts.”
Unsettled Enough
Nitish Pahwa unravels the legal and familial complexities of statelessness in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Control Freaks
Arjun S. Byju employs Emily C. Bloom’s “I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art” to investigate how tools of empowerment set us up for disappointment.
The Grove
Tajja Isen reminisces on the extra-retail therapies of childhood trips to The Grove in the newest installment of I Come Here Often, from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
A Mother’s Specter
Ade Khan reviews Arundhati Roy’s memoir “Mother Mary Comes to Me.”
The Other One Is Me
Sarah McEachern traces the merging images of Annie Ernaux’s “The Other Girl,” newly translated by Alison L. Strayer.
The Ruins of Utopia
Melissa Chadburn explores the history of the Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony through the writings of Aldous Huxley.
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