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“Bizness Is Bizness”: On Victor Serge’s “Last Times”
Marcus Hijkoop appreciates Victor Serge’s “Last Times,” a savagely demystifying portrait of France under Nazi occupation.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
The Things We Carried to Chemo
Lisa Glatt explores first her mother’s and then her own experiences with cancer in the context of national politics and family life.
A “Lost Cause” Finds His Way: On Isaac Fitzgerald’s “Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional”
Dorian Fox explores Isaac Fitzgerald’s journey from low self-esteem to success in “Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional.”
On Baduy
Novelist Miguel Syjuco on the subversive concept of baduy in Philippine culture.
“I’ve Always Been Fascinated by the Fate of Objects”: A Conversation with David Trinidad
Jack Skelley talks with David Trinidad about his new book, “Digging to Wonderland: Memory Pieces.”
Dead Cats: A Conversation on Romance and Rejection
A conversation between Gawker editor and “Ask A Fuck Up” columnist Brandy Jensen and writer and critic Andrea Long Chu on romance and rejection.
We Lost It at the Movies
Martha Southgate ponders the formative experiences and changing landscape of going to "The Movies."
Public Catastrophes, Private Retreats
Anthony Curtis Adler connects with Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor’s “A Friendship in Twilight: Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life.”
Who Is This Writing For? On Elaine Castillo’s “How to Read Now”
Kathy Chow reviews Elaine Castillo’s new collection of essays, “How To Read Now.”
Widow’s Peak
Laura Mauldin explores long and intensive caregiving, the devastation of losing a partner, and the process of healing, in part through having and loving a child.
On Thanksgiving, an Uninvited Guest
Jacque Gorelick explores her grief upon her breast cancer diagnosis, her experience of her treatment program, and the fear that she will have fewer Thanksgivings with her children.
The Boundlessness of Being in “Brown Neon”
Rachel León is transported through the boundless terrain of Raquel Gutiérrez’s “Brown Neon.”
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