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Hal’s Ready for His Close-up: An Excerpt from “But What I Really Want to Do Is Direct”
LARB presents an excerpt from Ken Kwapis’s “But What I Really Want to Do Is Direct: Lessons from a Life Behind the Camera.”
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
The Caregiver’s Dilemma
Ben Kafka talks with W. J. T. Mitchell about his new memoir, "Mental Traveler: A Father, a Son, and a Journey Through Schizophrenia."
Mental Traveler
LARB presents an excerpt from W. J. T. Mitchell's "Mental Traveler: A Father, a Son, and a Journey Through Schizophrenia."
For Camus, It Was Always Personal
On the inspirational lyricism of Camus’s essays.
A Journey to Being: On Seth Greenland’s “A Kingdom of Tender Colors”
An acutely observed, well-written memoir about surviving cancer, generously leavened with humor.
Black Childhood as Idyll: On Vivian Gibson’s “The Last Children of Mill Creek”
Ellen Wayland-Smith reviews Vivian Gibson’s memoir of growing up in St. Louis.
“He Drank It Black”: On Dinah Lenney’s “Coffee”
Markman Ellis soaks up “Coffee,” a “fluid, involving” object lesson by Dinah Lenney.
Something That Would Be Remembered: On Two Women Noir Trailblazers
Kathleen Jones on two recent biographies of midcentury women of noir: producer Joan Harrison and actress Veronica Lake.
Dilettantes and Connoisseurs: The Public Intellectual in the United States
On the evolution of the figure of the public intellectual in the internet age.
Turning Yourself into a Character Is Hard: A Conversation with David Adjmi
A celebrated playwright discusses his new memoir, “Lot Six.”
Albert Camus, Patron Saint of the Sticks
Camus’s final, unfinished novel evokes a lost Algerian homeland.
“This Long Whine”: George Scialabba’s Depressions
Ryan Boyd on George Scialabba’s “How To Be Depressed.”
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