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Zadie Smith Finds Her Way to Class
Todd Cronan on Zadie Smith’s politics of compassion.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
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.
Immunity Against Oblivion: On Avrom Sutzkever’s “From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony”
Jan Schwarz celebrates the appearance of “From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony” by Avrom Sutzkever, translated from the Yiddish by Justin Cammy.
You Must Change Your Life: A Conversation with Shane Anderson
Shane Anderson on his new book, “After the Oracle,” an unusual hybrid of memoir, sports journalism, and self-help book.
“Certainty Is a Daydream”: On Ashley Marie Farmer’s “Dear Damage”
In her new memoir, the poet turns traumatic family tragedy into an elegantly honest dream chronicle.
soon one day. still.
Zabe Bent calls out white people’s languid social commitments in the face of police killings of Black people.
New Myths for the Era of Displacement: On Fábio Zuker’s “The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon: Dispatches from the Brazilian Rainforest”
Eiren Caffall explores Fábio Zuker’s writing about ecological collapse and resistance.
Who Was His Little Brother, and Why Was He Killed?
A writer tries to unravel the mystery of who killed his friend — and the friend’s different identities.
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