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Dog Days in Postwar Paris: On Curzio Malaparte’s “Diary of a Foreigner in Paris”
Robert Zaretsky picks apart “Diary of a Foreigner in Paris” by Curzio Malaparte.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
How Bad Is the Criminal Justice System?
Laurie L. Levenson reviews Jason Hardy's new book about the criminal justice system, "The Second Chance Club: Hardship and Hope After Prison."
When the Chronically Ill Go into Remission: Filmmaker Jennifer Brea’s Life After “Unrest”
Megan Moodie details her own experiences with chronic pain and illness alongside a critical assessment of Jennifer Brea’s documentary “Unrest” (2017).
No Single Source, No Simple Solution: A Young Mother’s Homelessness in New York City
Stefano Bloch reviews Lauren Sandler's "This Is All I Got: A New Mother’s Search for Home."
Up at Oxford
Amit Chaudhuri looks back on the Oxford of the late 1980s from an “Indian perspective.”
An Outsider’s Perspective Inside the United States
Savy Janssen looks at "America through Foreign Eyes," the recently published book by Jorge G. Castañeda.
Unbecoming Women
Lori Jo Marso reads Annie Ernaux’s latest memoir alongside de Beauvoir.
The Road Toward Ruin: A Conversation with Neal Pollack
Erika Schickel talks to Neal Pollack about his new memoir “Pothead: My Life as a Marijuana Addict in the Age of Legal Weed.”
“We Are Always Revising Our Stories — and Ourselves”: A Conversation with Maya Shanbhag Lang
A new memoir about the challenges of caring for a mother suffering from dementia.
One Voice in a Great Chorus: An Interview with Rebecca Solnit
Meredith Maran talks to writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit about erasure, voicelessness, and her memoir “Recollections of My Nonexistence.”
Two Decades of Futility: On Erik Edstrom’s “Un-American: A Soldier’s Reckoning of Our Longest War”
A soldier’s journey through Afghanistan reveals dismal truths about the United States.
Finding the Right Tools: On Donovan Hohn’s “The Inner Coast”
Gregory McNamee reviews Donovan Hohn’s set of discursive essays about the environment.
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