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A Revolution in Common: A Conversation with Jody A. Forrester
Bernardita García Jiménez talks with Jody A. Forrester about her recently published memoir, "Guns Under the Bed: Memories of a Young Revolutionary."
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Reading in Slow Motion
On the sentences of Shakespeare and Anne Boyer, Roland Barthes and Joan Didion.
On Protection
When America’s vaunted ethos of freedom becomes the greatest impediment to self-care.
Speaking with the Dead
Two new memoirs about loss, grief, and the longing for communication.
A Conversation with Colin Dayan
Colin Dayan discusses her new memoir of growing up in the American South, “Animal Quintet.”
Queen of Reps (On Spaceship Earth)
Elvia Wilk on her life In quarantine...
Another Holy Land
Michael Scott Moore reviews D. J. Waldie's new book, "Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place."
Sprung from the Joint, but to Where?
Matt Joy reviews "The Second Chance Club," Jason Hardy's memoir of his life as a parole officer.
Erudition, Emotion, and the Essay: On Jazmina Barrera’s “On Lighthouses”
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado reviews "On Lighthouses," the new essay collection by Jazmina Barrera translated by Christina MacSweeney.
The Undying Half-Life of Yiddish
Two books explore the indelible imprint of Yiddish on modern politics and popular culture.
“This Constructed Self of Mine”: On the Narrative Possibilities of Racial Melancholia
Kim Hew-Low on the ways BIPOC writers assemble their stories.
A Poet in Hell
“Salvation Canyon” rises above the survivor-memoir genre and touches on the elemental power of consciousness.
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