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Poetry as an Act of Survival: A Conversation With Safiya Sinclair
Erik Gleibermann interviews Safiya Sinclair about her memoir “How to Say Babylon.”
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
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.
Endgame Emotions: The Melting of Time, the Mourning of the World
Mikkel Krause Frantzen explores emotions at the end.
The IIC School Versus the JLF School of Indian English
Sumana Roy on how the vernacularization of the English language has affected Indian political and cultural life.
School Spirit: Debts and Gifts from Wallace and Lethem
Colin Flynn remembers learning from David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Lethem.
Annals of an Alternate World: On John McPhee’s “Tabula Rasa”
Noah Rawlings reviews John McPhee’s “Tabula Rasa.”
Puzzles to Be Solved: A Conversation with Myriam Gurba
Daniel Olivas talks with Myriam Gurba about her new book “Creep: Accusations and Confessions.”
Against the MFA Contrarians
Joel Cuthbertson defends the creative writing MFA as an educational, not a vocational, enterprise.
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