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The Thin White Dunc: A Jaded Dandy in 1970s New York
A portrait of punk-era New York’s art and music scenes.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
The Black Girl Looks at Other Black Girls: On “This Will Be My Undoing” by Morgan Jerkins
The themes in "This Will Be My Undoing" are the safe, plodding kind expected from so-called diverse writers.
Kick, Push, Fatherhood: On Neal Thompson’s “Kickflip Boys”
What do fatherhood and skateboarding have in common?
A New Voice of the Southwest
When the going gets weird in Southern New Mexico.
David Lynch’s Sacred Clay
Does David Lynch and Kristine McKenna's hybrid biography-memoir "Room to Dream" offer the key to unlocking Lynch's film work?
Charts of Childhood, Maps of Family
Birger Vanwesenbeeck on a new collection of essays that charts and maps the patterns of family life.
“Apocalypse Child”: A Journey Out of a Cult
"I didn’t so much see my story as a ‘cult’ story as much as my story. It’s everyone else who likes to sensationalize the cult stuff."
Justice Among the Jell-O Recipes: The Feminist History of Food Journalism
Suzanne Cope rescues the true history of food journalism from erasure.
The Jokes on Us: Examining the Hard Truths For Women in Television
Achieving equity in TV isn’t just about being fair — it’s about accessing new and better stories to elevate television for everyone.
One World into Another
On the seriousness of play and the weirdness of “The Nutcracker.”
The Truest Music
“An essay is a venture, an attempt. It proposes not the Q.E.D. of arrival but ongoingness, forward motion.” Sven Birkerts on “The Art of the Wasted Day."
“The Way Life Happens”: On Laura Esther Wolfson’s “For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors”
Lynne Sharon Schwartz praises “For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors,” a collection of personal essays by Laura Esther Wolfson.
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