Memoir & Essay

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Excitingly Bizarre and Complicatedly Magical
A highly personal series of detailed “trip reports.”
Matthew BondNov 10, 2018
- Memoir & Essay
- Nonfiction
Urgent Call for the Respect of Women and Minorities: Kevin Powell’s “My Mother. Barack Obama. Donald Trump. And the Last Stand of the Angry White Man.”
Charlie Braxton is excited by Kevin Powell's new essay collection.
Charlie BraxtonNov 7, 2018
- Memoir & Essay
- Politics
Border Memories
Two new memoirs about the US-Mexico border.
Caitlin ReynoldsNov 6, 2018
- Memoir & Essay
- Politics
Anger Persists: On Rebecca Traister’s “Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger”
"Good and Mad" uses several prisms for revealing the nuances of women’s anger in the second decade of the 21st century.
Maggie LevantovskayaNov 5, 2018
A Desire for the Sentence: An Interview with Brian Dillon
Nathan Goldman interviews Brian Dillon about his new book, “Essayism.”
Nathan GoldmanNov 2, 2018
- Memoir & Essay
Combining the Personal with the Critical: An Interview with Alice Bolin
A new collection of essays about the American West, Britney Spears, female friendships, and reality TV, among other things.
Aaron ShulmanOct 28, 2018
- Memoir & Essay
Thinking Itself Is Dangerous
Samantha Hill reviews “Thinking Without a Banister,” the new collection of writings by Hannah Arendt.
Samantha Rose HillOct 22, 2018
Higher Laughter: On Jim Holt
"When Einstein Walked with Gödel" is a perfect bedtime book, with each essay providing a luminous devotional on heavy topics, delivered with a light touch.
David KordahlOct 19, 2018
- Memoir & Essay
- Science & Technology
Grabbing the Narrative for Yourself: An Interview with Jamie Bernstein
A poignant, revealing memoir by the daughter of Leonard Bernstein.
Joy HorowitzOct 18, 2018
- Memoir & Essay
- Music
Writing Algeria
Kamel Daoud is a brilliant, indeed dazzling, thinker: his sharp turns in thought and language, as well as his subject matter, gave me motion sickness.
Jennifer SolheimOct 16, 2018
Parenting in the Age of Fear: An Interview with Kim Brooks
Kathleen Rooney interviews Kim Brooks about her new book on parenting in the age of fear and the anxieties that attend modern motherhood and fatherhood.
Kathleen RooneyOct 13, 2018
- Gender & Sexuality
- Memoir & Essay
Translation Without Theory
What is the best method for translation? V. Joshua Adams looks to Mark Polizzotti's "Sympathy for the Traitor" to find out.
V. Joshua AdamsOct 7, 2018
- Literary Criticism
- Memoir & Essay