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After the Factory Closes: On Kerri Arsenault’s “Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains”
A set of linked essays about Maine’s dying factory landscape leaves a distinct impression.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
The Machete as Metaphor: On Roberto Lovato’s “Unforgetting”
A new memoir cuts through the density of buried trauma in El Salvador.
Caught Between Terror and Joy: On Melissa Valentine’s “The Names of All the Flowers”
Katie Shireen Assef on the grief and generosity of Melissa Valentine’s debut memoir, “The Names of All the Flowers.”
Baseball Road Trip: An Interview with Brad Balukjian
Julia Scheeres talks to Brad Balukjian about his road trip to track down all the players in a 1986 package of Topps.
Stranger Than Something That Is Already Strange: A Conversation with Namwali Serpell
The literary critic turned celebrated novelist discusses her new book, “Stranger Faces.”
Reading and Writing Again: On Zadie Smith’s “Intimations”
Scott Korb reads Zadie Smith's newest essay collection, "Intimations."
The Dark History of Eastern California: A Conversation with Kendra Atleework
Kendra Atleework discusses her new memoir, “Miracle Country,” and the beauty of Eastern California.
On Choice, Children, and Womanhood: A Conversation with Christa Parravani
Kelly Thompson talks with Christa Parravani about her new memoir, “Loved and Wanted.”
Wandering Ways
Toward a discursive, essayistic mode of lecturing.
A Wine Lover Considers the “Sober Lush” Lifestyle
Annemarie Hauser embraces "The Sober Lush," the new book by Amanda Eyre Ward and Jardine Libaire.
Greece, Cut and Dried
Piper French reviews "The Passenger: Greece," the new essay collection from Europa Editions and Iperborea.
In the Back Kitchen
If you could have lunch with a famous person or a departed loved one, whom would you choose?
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