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Travelogue of the Exodus
Charles Dunst reviews Anne Goldman's "Stargazing in the Atomic Age," her search for modern Jewish identity.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
How to Read an Artichoke: On George Saunders’s “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain”
Robert Allen Papinchak sits in on the master class of “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain” by George Saunders.
Family Fault Lines: On Nadia Owusu’s “Aftershocks”
A new memoir about growing up on uncertain and shifting ground.
“When They Go Low, We Go High”: Keeping Calm in the Critical Race Memoir
Joel Rhone reads “What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues” by Clifford Thompson in context.
Writing Isn’t a Sacred Activity, It Is an Ordinary Activity: A Conversation with Karl Ove Knausgaard
Bob Blaisdell talks with writer Karl Ove Knausgaard.
African Literature and Digital Culture
The digital impulses of African creativity have fundamentally altered literary culture.
Putting America to the Test
A treasure trove of great American essays, from Cotton Mather to Joan Didion.
Letters from Prison: A Conversation with Mike Africa Jr.
A discussion of Tiyo Attallah Salah-El’s “Pen Pal: Prison Letters from a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row.”
Exploding Clichés: On Éric Chevillard’s Versatile Prose
Michelle Kuo, Jeremy M. Davies, and Daniel Levin Becker discuss Éric Chevillard’s pandemic writing and the challenges of rendering his style into English.
Two Chapters from "Love is an Ex-Country"
An excerpt from Randa Jarrar's forthcoming book "Love is an Ex-Country"
Stars, Bars, and Memoirs
A West Point brigadier general takes aim at the Army’s history of coddling Confederate iconography.
“Toxic” Relationships in the Affective Age
What memoirs by Melissa Febos, Carmen Maria Machado, and Alisson Wood can tell us about our affective age.
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