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Putting America to the Test
A treasure trove of great American essays, from Cotton Mather to Joan Didion.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
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.
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."
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...
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