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This Has Always Been Possible
Sarah LaBrie talks to Nina St. Pierre about their respective memoirs, “No One Gets to Fall Apart” and “Love Is a Burning Thing.”
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Did the Pandemic Ever End?
Kiese Laymon interviews Chi Rainer Bornfree and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan about their epistolary pandemic memoir, “The End Doesn’t Happen All at Once.”
All That Lovely Old Transsexual Shit
Agnes Borinsky appreciates all the ways Vivian Blaxell’s does transness in her book-length essay “Worthy of the Event.”
Reframing Solidarity
Joshua Gutterman Tranen considers Sarah Schulman’s “The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity.”
Alt-Media, Then and Now
Aaron Boehmer discusses the visual language of underground and alternative newspapers and how they subvert mainstream media through design.
Wanting to Be Made New
Marissa Lorusso interviews Niko Stratis about her new book, “The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman.”
Rebuilding a Relationship
Yvonne Conza interviews Jill Bialosky about her new book, “The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother.”
Riding the Korean Wave
Oliver Wang interviews Euny Hong about her expanded edition of “The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture.”
How Librarians Found Themselves on the Front Line of the Culture War
Melina Moe considers Amanda Jones’s “That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America.”
An Irishman’s Love Letter to Saigon
Mary Kay Magistad investigates Connla Stokes’s “Falling for Saigon.”
Because We Care
Danielle Chelosky reviews Constance Debré’s “Name,” translated by Lauren Elkin.
Reading Behind Bars, and Beyond Barriers
Jackie Snow reflects on what working for a books-to-prisons nonprofit has taught her about reading.
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