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My Brother’s Ghost: On Race and Grief in Los Angeles
Nico Slate talks about his late biracial brother, the inspiration for his new book “Brothers: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Race.”
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
The Humor of Devastation: A Conversation with Hannah Pittard
Lily Felsenthal speaks with Hannah Pittard about her new book “We Are Too Many: A Memoir [Kind Of].”
Quantum Mechanics: On McKenzie Wark’s “Raving”
Vivian Medithi reviews McKenzie Wark’s “Raving.”
Hardworking Midwesterner: On Tom Brokaw’s “Never Give Up”
Michele Willens reviews Tom Brokaw’s “Never Give Up: A Prairie Family’s Story.”
The Afterlives of Violence: On Brandon Shimoda’s “Hydra Medusa”
Hana Rivers reviews Brandon Shimoda’s “Hydra Medusa.”
There’s No Such Thing as a Guilty Pleasure
Katharine Coldiron ponders why we love the bad art we love.
How We Socialize Now: A Conversation with Sheila Liming
Jeffrey J. Williams interviews Sheila Liming, author of the recent “Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time.”
A Single Dish a Thousand Times: On Rebecca May Johnson's “Small Fires”
Siobhan Phillips reviews Rebecca May Johnson’s “Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen.”
Performing the Patient: On Emily Wells’s “A Matter of Appearance”
Emma Cohen reviews Emily Wells’s memoir of chronic illness, “A Matter of Appearance.”
Footnotes of the Avenues: An Introduction to Stephen Hilger’s “In the Alley”
Matthew Spektor analyzes the Los Angeles photography of Stephen Hilger’s “In the Alley.”
A World That Was Not the World: A Conversation with Laird Hunt
Sean McCoy talks to Laird Hunt about “This Wide Terraqueous World: Essays in Fiction.”
Swan Song for a University: On Carolyn Dekker’s “North Country”
Rachel Feder discusses Carolyn Dekker’s new book “North Country: A Pedagogical Almanac” and the crisis in higher education.
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