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Shopgirl Pride: On Kate Flannery’s “Strip Tees”
Mariella Rudi reviews Kate Flannery’s “Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles.”
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
My Bird Today Promises a Story
In a preview of the new LARB Quarterly, no. 39: “Air,” Dan O’Brien finds symbols of life and faith in the theater.
The One-Way Ticket to Barcelona
In a preview of the new LARB Quarterly, no. 39: “Air,” Corina Zappia considers the state of travel for single women.
The Gift That Chung’s Gave Me: On Curtis Chin’s “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant”
A. C. Huyen reviews Curtis Chin’s “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.”
You Mustn’t Pretend You Didn’t Know: Arundhati Roy on the Condition of India Under Modi
Arundhati Roy accepts the Charles Veillon Foundation’s 45th European Essay Prize for lifetime achievement.
Jessie’s Girl: On Guinevere Turner’s “When the World Didn’t End”
Tamara MC reviews Guinevere Turner’s “When the World Didn’t End.”
Poetry as an Act of Survival: A Conversation With Safiya Sinclair
Erik Gleibermann interviews Safiya Sinclair about her memoir “How to Say Babylon.”
Creating Art in the Face of War Crimes: On John Freedman’s “A Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War”
Ada Wordsworth reviews John Freedman’s anthology of works by Ukrainian playwrights, “A Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War.”
Tell Them It Is Going to Hurt: On Meg Kissinger’s “While You Were Out”
Tahneer Oksman reviews Meg Kissinger’s “While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence.”
Ostalgie: Revisiting East Germany
Does nostalgia for the old East Berlin come from a deeper longing for socialism?
Stories We Tell: The Promise and Peril of Mental Illness Narratives
Through analysis of Meg Kissinger’s “While You Were Out: An Intimate Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence” and Rachel Aviv’s “Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and Stories that Make Us,” Isabel Ruehl contemplates the role of storytelling in perpertuating mental illness.
Men Explain Periods to Me
Farah Ahamed on how men reacted to her book about menstruation—by explaining menstruation.
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