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The Awful Shapelessness of Loss: On Katharine Smyth’s “All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf”
Morten Høi Jensen lingers over “All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf” by Katharine Smyth.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
The Ultimate Self-Own: On Joel Golby’s “Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant”
Cathryn Setz takes stock of “Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant,” a collection of essays by Joel Golby.
“Love,” “Family,” and Other Homonyms: A Conversation with Briallen Hopper
Jacqui Shine speaks to Briallen Hopper, author of “Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions.”
Life After Noir: A Conversation with Duke Haney
David Breithaupt debriefs Duke Haney, author of “Death Valley Superstars: Occasionally Fatal Adventures in Filmland.”
Freddie Outside the Bronx: Frederic Tuten’s “My Young Life”
Reading Frederic Tuten's "My Young Life," you’re aware of just how easily this might have been a dilettante’s memoir.
The Feeling of Heart: A Conversation with Frederic Tuten
Carrie Cooperider talks to Frederic Tuten about his memoir, “My Young Life.”
A Fine Green Thread
A new collection of essays by and about Irish-American writers in New York.
When Speaking Is Not Enough: On Laurie Halse Anderson’s “Shout”
A new verse memoir about sexual abuse uses poetry to indict and heal.
Making It by Faking It
A new memoir about a youthful career as a fake classical violinist.
Poppy/Friend
The Necessity of Being Judgmental: On “k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher”
"k-punk" is a primer in how to write cultural criticism today. If it is a catastrophe that we no longer have Mark Fisher, we at least have this collection.
Holocaust Remembrance: Primo Levi’s Work
In confronting Primo Levi's writing, in allowing ourselves to be drawn into the horror, we face not the evil that Levi faced, but rather ourselves.
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