The Provincial Reader
Sumana Roy reflects on the loss — or the proliferation — of the provincial reader.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
To Stop the Shrug: An Interview with Susannah Cahalan
Taylor Larsen talks to writer Susannah Cahalan about her new book, "The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission that Changed Our Understanding of Madness."
Just Because You Played a Writer, Doesn’t Mean You Are One: A Conversation Between Savannah Knoop and Amy Scholder
Talking to Savannah Knoop about their work and their time as JT Leroy.
Listening to the Darkness: On Jeff Sharlet’s “This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers”
L. Benjamin Rolsky looks at "This Brilliant Darkness," the new book from Jeff Sharlet.
Freeway Dreams
A historian of misbegotten urban development writes of growing up queer in Tucson.
The Feminine Ending: On Women’s Writing in Yiddish, Now Available in English
Madeleine Cohen greets new English translations of women authors who wrote in Yiddish.
In the World to Change It
Prominent female Palestinian-American Muslim advocate Linda Sarsour writes a memoir.
Nothing Sacred: On “Intelligence for Dummies”
ZE Books, for its inaugural publication, has released “Intelligence for Dummies,” a collection of Glenn O’Brien’s writings from 1963 to 2017.
Living the Dream: On Ludvík Vaculík’s “A Czech Dreambook”
Michael Tate delves into “A Czech Dreambook” by Ludvík Vaculík, translated by Gerald Turner.
Please Fix Me: A Conversation with Anna Mehler Paperny
Anna Mehler Paperny discusses her new memoir about suicide and mental illness.
Early Mourning: On Chantal Akerman’s “My Mother Laughs”
Daniel Fraser looks at the most recent translation of Chantal Akerman’s “My Mother Laughs” as a work about motherhood, illness, and language.
Goodness Is a Triumph: On Ed Simon’s “Furnace of this World; Or, 36 Observations about Goodness”
Nick Ripatrazone enters "Furnace of this World; Or, 36 Observations about Goodness," a recently published book by Ed Simon.
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