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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.”
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
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.
“Shame Was My First Drug”: A Conversation with Erin Khar
Erin Khar discusses her memoir about recovering from addiction, “Strung Out.”
In Search of Samuel R. Delany
Lavelle Porter considers "In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delaney, Volume I, 1957–1969."
Squeezing the Slave Out Drop by Drop: Vivian Gornick’s “Unfinished Business”
Emily LaBarge on the pleasures of reading Vivian Gornick rereading.
Septemberland, How to Find Your Way in a Post-9/11 Dystopian World
Jordan Elgrably reviews "When All Else Fails" by Rayyan Al-Shawaf and "When We Were Arabs" by Massoud Hayoun.
No One Is Nothing: On “Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA’s Graffiti Subculture”
Ryan Gattis reviews Stefano Bloch's new book.
Elizabeth Wurtzel and the Feminist Disability Memoir
Elizabeth Wurtzel changed how we think about memoir — and mental illness.
A Personal Journey: On “Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World”
A political memoir of 15 years spent in exile.
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