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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.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
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.
Beneath the Mucous-Paper: On D. H. Lawrence’s “The Bad Side of Books”
Robert Minto gets “the full Lawrence experience” from “The Bad Side of Books: Selected Essays of D. H. Lawrence.”
What It All Meant: A Conversation with Alex Halberstadt
Meredith Maran interviews Alex Halberstadt about his debut memoir, “Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning.”
Always Narrating: The Making and Unmaking of Umberto Eco
Costica Bradatan looks back at, and behind, the life and thought of Umberto Eco, who waged a long war against “dietrologia” (“behindology”).
Stuff, the Essay
Sasha Graybosch on dealing how we deal with our stuff
Approaching New Consciousnesses: A Conversation with Genese Grill
Greg Gerke speaks with writer, translator, and book artist Genese Grill.
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