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“The Word ‘Future’ Wasn’t Part of My Vocabulary”: On Cookie Mueller’s “Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black: Collected Stories”
Nathan Dunne reviews Cookie Mueller’s “Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black.”
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Left Mid-Sentence: On Laura Trujillo’s “Stepping Back from the Ledge”
Colleen Creighton considers Laura Trujillo’s “Stepping Back from the Ledge: A Daughter’s Search for Truth and Renewal.”
“I’m an Idiot. Please Kill Me”: On Markiyan Kamysh’s “Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl”
Cory Oldweiler reviews Markiyan Kamysh’s memoir, “Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl.”
Seeing and Solitude: On Celia Paul’s “Letters to Gwen John”
Mairead Small Staid reviews Celia Paul’s new mixed-genre memoir, “Letters to Gwen John.”
Game, Set, Match
Jason Christian considers “The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings” by Geoff Dyer.
Where the Sagebrush Grows
Brittany Bronson considers John M. Glionna’s collection of essays about rural Nevada.
Zadie Smith Finds Her Way to Class
Todd Cronan on Zadie Smith’s politics of compassion.
The Meanings of a Good Curry: On Madhushree Ghosh’s “Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family”
Rishi Reddi explores Madhushree Ghosh’s treatment of food, language, immigration, and colonialism in “Khabaar.”
States of Solitude: On Natalie Eve Garrett’s “The Lonely Stories”
Charlotte Hecht reviews the anthology “The Lonely Stories: 22 Celebrated Writers on the Joys & Struggles of Being Alone,” edited by Natalie Eve Garrett.
The Missing: On Sasha LaPointe’s “Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk”
Ellen Wayland-Smith explores the meanings of exile and impermanence “Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk” by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe.
Flares and Embers: On A. J. Verdelle’s “Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison”
Wayne Catan connects with “Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison” by A. J. Verdelle.
What It Means to Wander
Janet Fitch takes a tour of “Ways of Walking,” a collection of essays edited by Ann de Forest.
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