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Various Hellfires: On Elias Canetti’s “I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole”
Stephen Phelan reviews “I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole: An Elias Canetti Reader.”
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Dreaming About Julius Rosenberg, Again
David Evanier revisits interviews he conducted with those involved in the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
Masculinity Is the New Prey: On Ander Monson’s “Predator”
Adam Fleming Petty reviews Ander Monson’s memoir-in-criticism, “Predator.”
Random House: Surviving Rejection (After Rejection)
Anna Dorn explores a career in rejection (and eventual success).
When Addiction Fails: On Carl Erik Fisher’s “The Urge”
Gordon Marino reviews Carl Erik Fisher’s “The Urge.”
Modernism’s Midlife Crisis: On Justin Beal’s “Sandfuture”
Travis Diehl on Justin Beal’s biography-cum-memoir, “Sandfuture.”
Modern-Day Oracles: On Alice Wong’s “Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life”
Laura Mauldin reviews “Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life” by Alice Wong.
COVID and Kitsch: On Robert Zaretsky’s “Victories Never Last”
Dan Turello reviews Robert Zaretsky’s “Victories Never Last.”
At Home in Los Angeles
Annenberg School of Journalism graduate students and staff share their reflections on what makes Los Angeles home.
Literature in Afghanistan: A Dream Gone to Ruins
Afghan author Homeira Qaderi on the sorry fate of literature under the Taliban regime.
The Great Transylvanian Novel? On Gábor Vida’s “Story of a Stammer”
Cory Oldweiler reviews Hungarian author Gábor Vida’s autofictional novel “Story of a Stammer,” translated by Jozefina Komporaly.
For DJ: Remembering Denis Johnson
Friends and colleagues recall the late novelist and poet Denis Johnson, who died in 2017.
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