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Tears, Idle Tears: On Heather Christle’s “The Crying Book”
Sophia Stewart dives into “The Crying Book” by Heather Christle.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Snowden: A Whistle-Blower Who Lived to Tell About It
Roslyn Fuller reviews "Permanent Record," the new book from NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden.
Lying the Truth with Emmanuel Carrère
Randy Rosenthal unpacks “97,196 Words: Essays” by Emmanuel Carrère, translated from the French by John Lambert.
Marguerite Duras and the Violence of Writing
Katie Da Cunha Lewin reviews a new translation of Marguerite Duras’s major essays and nonfiction.
Kicking Down Doors: On Timothy J. Hillegonds’s “The Distance Between”
Ryan Smernoff reviews Timothy J. Hillegonds’s debut memoir, “The Distance Between.”
Corruption Trickles Down: A Conversation with Sonya Bilocerkowycz
John Dixon Mirisola speaks to Sonya Bilocerkowycz about her debut collection of essays, “On Our Way Home from the Revolution: Reflections on Ukraine.”
Among the Felines: On Bohumil Hrabal’s “All My Cats”
Natalia Holtzman herds “All My Cats” by Bohumil Hrabal, translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson.
The Durassian Mysteries: On Marguerite Duras’s “Me & Other Writing”
Natasha Boyd reviews Marguerite Duras’s “Me & Other Writing,” out now from Dorothy, a publishing project.
The Father Never Goes Away: A Conversation with M. Randal O’Wain
M. Randal O’Wain discusses his new memoir and his working-class Southern roots.
An American Boy and His Jamaican Nanny: A Conversation with Ross Kenneth Urken
Aaron Shulman speaks to Ross Kenneth Urken about “Another Mother,” his memoir about life with the Jamaican woman who raised him and her life outside of him.
The Trauma of Pretending: On Adam P. Frankel’s “The Survivors”
A former Obama speechwriter struggles with the trauma of his mother’s mental illness.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: On Saeed Jones’s “How We Fight for Our Lives”
Richard Scott Larson considers “How We Fight for Our Lives” by Saeed Jones.
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