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That Factual Feeling: Voices of “The Good Immigrant”
The pieces in "The Good Immigrant" knit together experiences that, though sometimes at odds with one another, complicate notions of immigrant life.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Hell Down in Hollywood: On Duke Haney’s “Death Valley Superstars”
Peter L. Winkler plumbs the depths of “Death Valley Superstars: Occasionally Fatal Adventures in Filmland” by Duke Haney.
A Knack for Embracing Impermanence: On Pico Iyer’s “Autumn Light”
A new memoir about coming to terms with aging and death.
Trying to Build the World from Ash: Chris Rush on the Art of Memoir
Grace Hadland interviews artist Chris Rush about his new memoir, “The Light Years,” which details his coming-of-age as a gay man in 1970s suburbia.
Transgressive Circulation: A Conversation with Johannes Göransson
M. Buna speaks to Johannes Göransson about his “Transgressive Circulation: Essays on Translation.”
The Singular Power of Writing: A Conversation with Thomas Chatterton Williams
Otis Houston speaks to Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of “Losing My Cool” and “Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race.”
Il Accuse: On “Who Killed My Father” by Édouard Louis
Kevin O’Rourke on the personal and the political in “Who Killed My Father” by Édouard Louis.
Whispers in the Bare Ruined Choir: Meghan O’Gieblyn’s Crisis of Faith
Meghan O'Gieblyn's "Interior States" is an exemple of the kind of commentary that uses religious vocabulary to describe our current moment.
Astonishments for Our Time
Lowry Pressly considers “The Condition of Secrecy” by Inger Christensen.
What Makes an Immigrant Good?
Simon Lee reviews "The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America," which offers a range of perspectives on assimilation, pluralism, and Othering.
Giving Up the Ghost
On the trail of Susan Orlean on the trail of the ghost orchid.
The Neo-Regionalist Moment: Hearing the Emerging Voices of the American Center
Jon K. Lauck looks to three recent books to highlight the recent wave of Midwestern literature.
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