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Unsettled Enough
Nitish Pahwa unravels the legal and familial complexities of statelessness in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Control Freaks
Arjun S. Byju employs Emily C. Bloom’s “I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art” to investigate how tools of empowerment set us up for disappointment.
The Grove
Tajja Isen reminisces on the extra-retail therapies of childhood trips to The Grove in the newest installment of I Come Here Often, from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
A Mother’s Specter
Ade Khan reviews Arundhati Roy’s memoir “Mother Mary Comes to Me.”
The Other One Is Me
Sarah McEachern traces the merging images of Annie Ernaux’s “The Other Girl,” newly translated by Alison L. Strayer.
The Ruins of Utopia
Melissa Chadburn explores the history of the Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony through the writings of Aldous Huxley.
Tripping with Plotinus
M. D. Usher explores Moin Mir’s “Travels with Plotinus: A Journey in Search of Unity.”
The Dream of the 2000s Is Dead
Kristen Felicetti considers Colette Shade’s “Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything.”
All That Beauty and Misery
Jenna Mahale interviews Philippa Snow about her new books “It’s Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me: On Femininity and Fame” and “Snow Business.”
Maybe We Can Talk About It
Iris Kim interviews Katie Simon about “Tell Me What You Like: An Honest Discussion of Sex and Intimacy After Sexual Assault.”
Writing to Liberate Yourself
Matthew K. Ritchie interviews Lawrence Burney about his new book, “No Sense in Wishing.”
City of Sycophants
Tess Pollok interviews Zoe Dubno about her debut novel, “Happiness and Love.”
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