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Blurry Feminism: On Jia Tolentino’s “Trick Mirror”
Callie Hitchcock reflects on “Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion,” a collection of essays by Jia Tolentino.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Side by Side: On Bettijane Sills’s “Broadway, Balanchine, & Beyond: A Memoir” and Marianne Preger-Simon’s “Dancing with Merce Cunningham”
Megan Race appreciates two well-paired memoirs, “Broadway, Balanchine, and Beyond: A Memoir” and “Dancing with Merce Cunningham.”
Griot Jali: California’s First Poet Laureate, Quincy Troupe, Returns to His Old Stomping Ground
Patrick Howell interviews author Quincy Troupe about Harlem, growing up in St. Louis, and what's next.
My Late Lunch with Oliver Sacks
A conversation in Elysium — or, rather, the West Village — with the late Oliver Sacks.
Self-Exposure: Two Retrospectives by Autobiographical Comics Pioneers Julie Doucet and Ariel Schrag
Frederik Byrn Køhlert reviews two new collections from Ariel Schrag and Julie Doucet.
Identity Shaping on Social Media: On Jia Tolentino’s “Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion”
Maggie Levantovskaya gazes into “Trick Mirror,” a new essay collection by Jia Tolentino.
Stay Out of the Forest: On Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark’s “Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered”
Jacquelyn Ardam weighs in on “Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered” by “My Favorite Murder” podcasters Georgia Hardstark and Karen Kilgariff.
Fighting as Conversation: On Jaed Coffin’s “Roughhouse Friday”
"Roughhouse Friday" details Jaed Coffin’s hunger for a language he can call his own.
Before Ta-Nehisi Coates: On James Alan McPherson’s “Crabcakes”
Anya Ventura revisits "Crabcakes," the 1998 memoir by the late James Alan McPherson.
Darkness Visible, Light Ahead: On Mary Cregan’s “The Scar”
Leslie Kendall Dye tends to "The Scar," a new memoir by Mary Cregan.
Through a Gen-X Lens: A Conversation with Meghan Daum
A celebrated essayist takes on #MeToo, Twitter, and other millennial obsessions.
Blowing the Philosopher’s Fuses: Michel Foucault’s LSD Trip in the Valley of Death
James Penner takes a trip through “Foucault in California” by Simeon Wade, which chronicles the day when a great French philosopher blew his mind.
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