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Finding the Right Tools: On Donovan Hohn’s “The Inner Coast”
Gregory McNamee reviews Donovan Hohn’s set of discursive essays about the environment.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Declassified: An Interview with Jessica Pearce Rotondi
Meredith Maran talks to writer Jessica Pearce Rotondi about unresolved grief, hidden political histories, and her debut book, “What We Inherit.”
A Voice from America’s Black Belt: On Bakari Sellers’s “My Vanishing Country”
A moving memoir from an insightful commentator on race and politics in America.
The Fun of Serious Noticing: On James Wood’s Latest Collection
Angela M Giles reviews "Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997–2019" by James Wood.
The Stories We Tell About Disability: A Conversation with Amanda Leduc
What fairy tales have to tell us about disability, social power, and agency.
What Do They Know of English, Who Only English Know? On Gaston Dorren’s “Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages” and “Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages”
Colin Marshall explores the allure of polyglotism and the perils of linguistic hegemony through “Lingo” and “Babel” by Gaston Dorren.
The News They Wanted Not to Hear: On Robert Stone
Three new books offer an embarrassment of riches for fans of Robert Stone.
When Israel Was Socialist
A memoir from Rachel Biale raises unanswered questions about Israel.
Slow Apocalypse
John Hay reviews Mark O’Connell’s “Notes from an Apocalypse.”
An Editor’s Arc: A Conversation with David Hamilton
Harilaos Stecopoulos talks to writer David Hamilton about how he writes essays and the future of literary magazines.
Reckoning with the Shadow Side of Life: A Conversation with Lynn Casteel Harper
Lynn Casteel Harper reimagines the end of life.
“Why Are You Pissed!”: On Cathy Park Hong’s “Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning”
Cassie Packard considers “Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning” by Cathy Park Hong.
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