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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.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
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.
Foregone Conclusion: The Afterword as Preface
Darrell Spencer considers death through the lenses of golf and Robert Altman’s “McCabe and Mrs. Miller.”
Between Love and Envy
Jody Keisner explores love and envy between sisters in and outside her family.
“I’m Going to Learn How to Make My Own Kind of Life”: On Vashti Bunyan’s “Wayward”
David Mandl reviews Vashti Bunyan’s memoir “Wayward: Just Another Life to Live.”
If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Auschwitz: On Jerry Stahl’s “Nein, Nein, Nein! One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust”
Tom Teicholz reviews Jerry Stahl’s new memoir “Nein, Nein, Nein! One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust.”
The Unchanging Same: On Édouard Louis’s “A Woman’s Battles and Transformations”
Eric Newman on Édouard Louis's "A Woman’s Battles and Transformations."
“Madonna Was My Sex-Ed Teacher”: A Conversation with R/B Mertz
Samantha Mann talks with R/B Mertz about their memoir, “Burning Butch.”
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