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Auspicious Conflagrations: The Heat of Women’s Anger
Bean Gilsdorf joins the chorus of women speaking about their anger, so that they can do something about it.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
“Either Hyper-Visible or Invisible”: An Interview with Jaquira Díaz
Jaquira Díaz discusses her new memoir, her love of music, and her gratitude for the richness of her Puerto Rican heritage.
Pain as Revolution: On Anne Boyer’s “The Undying”
Emily LaBarge reviews Anne Boyer's memoir/meditation on the personal and cultural experience of cancer.
Everybody Hurts
Travis Rieder’s “In Pain” provides us with a bioethics that is not passively analytical, but peacefully agitative.
Picking Children’s Pockets: An Interview with Dina Nayeri
A personal story about fleeing the Iranian Revolution is also an indictment of Western immigration policy.
“Before I Began”: On the Wisdom of Not-Knowing
Emmalea Russo reviews Cynthia Cruz’s “Disquieting: Essays on Silence.”
Black No More?
Cinque Henderson looks at "Self-Portrait in Black and White" by Thomas Chatterton Williams.
A Great Spirit Trapped in a Tiny Life: On Cherríe Moraga’s “Native Country of the Heart”
Michael Nava visits “Native Country of the Heart,” a new memoir from Cherríe Moraga.
Determined to See the Worst
Magdalena Miecznicka reviews Margaret McMullan's new memoir, "Where the Angels Lived."
Animating Tension: A Conversation with Leslie Jamison
Sarah Neilson talks to writer Leslie Jamison about her new essay collection, "Make It Scream, Make It Burn."
Going Toward What Glows: An Interview with Ben Folds
Emily Sernaker speaks to Ben Folds, musician and author of “A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons.”
Are Words the Enemy of Belonging? On Paul Kingsnorth’s “Savage Gods”
Ellie Robins hearkens to “Savage Gods” by Paul Kingsnorth.
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