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Fraught with Peril: On Lucia Berlin’s “Evening in Paradise” and “Welcome Home”
Ryan Smernoff greets the publication of “Evening in Paradise: More Stories” and “Welcome Home” by Lucia Berlin.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Finding the Tune
Mark Wallace pays homage to Webern’s Concerto, which determined the course of his life.
Excitingly Bizarre and Complicatedly Magical
A highly personal series of detailed “trip reports.”
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.
Border Memories
Two new memoirs about the US-Mexico border.
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.
A Desire for the Sentence: An Interview with Brian Dillon
Nathan Goldman interviews Brian Dillon about his new book, “Essayism.”
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.
Thinking Itself Is Dangerous
Samantha Hill reviews “Thinking Without a Banister,” the new collection of writings by Hannah Arendt.
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.
Grabbing the Narrative for Yourself: An Interview with Jamie Bernstein
A poignant, revealing memoir by the daughter of Leonard Bernstein.
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.
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