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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.”
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
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.
Uncomfortable Somethings: On Isabel Zapata’s “In Vitro”
Claire Calderón reviews Isabel Zapata’s “In Vitro: On Longing and Transformation.”
I Was Determined to Remember: Harriet Jacobs and the Corporeality of Slavery’s Legacies
Koritha Mitchell discusses her research for a scholarly edition of Harriet Jacobs’s “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.”
What I Was Doing When I Was Writing About Descartes
Melissa Lo considers the link between Cartesian mind-body dualism and the “model minority” identity.
Tenderness and Ferocity Go Hand in Hand: A Conversation with Jane Wong
Sean Hooks talks with Jane Wong about her new book “Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City.”
Echoes of Her Ancestors: On Ava Chin’s “Mott Street”
Megan Vered reviews Ava Chin’s “Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming.”
Anorexia Turbocharged: On Hadley Freeman’s “Good Girls”
Catharine Morris pens a poignant appreciation of Hadley Freeman’s “Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia.”
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