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Revisiting Ruin: Paul Lisicky Interviews Barrie Jean Borich
Barrie Jean Borich on her new book, returning to Chicago, and why she is drawn to ruin.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
“An Anthology Held Together by Earnestness”: A Conversation with Leslie Jamison
Denise Grollmus talks to Leslie Jamison about her latest book, “The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath.”
(Again?) Again: Reading Leslie Jamison’s “The Recovering”
Ellen Wayland-Smith follows the narrative weave of Leslie Jamison’s memoir, “The Recovering.”
Cosplay and Clotted Cream: The Lasting Appeal of Jane Austen
A tour through the fannish wonders of Austenworld.
Nobody Is Safe: Disordered Eating in the Age of Foodies
On "Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen," Hannah Howard’s book about coming of age in the New York food scene with an eating disorder.
Marginalia
Jessica Gross marks the margins of Sloane Crosley's "Look Alive Out There."
Thinking About Believing: On Marilynne Robinson’s “What Are We Doing Here?”
Robinson's ideas are beautiful, but are they always persuasive? Nicholas Cannariato on "What Are We Doing Here?"
Where Will You Take Me?
“'Time Pieces' comes across as a vexingly undecided little book.” Sven Birkerts on John Banville's Dublin memoir.
The Spirit of the Game
Joshua W. Jackson reviews David Wanczyk's "Beep: Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind."
Mental Health, Art, and Advocacy: Talking with Gayle Brandeis
Krista Lukas interviews Gayle Brandeis about memoirs of suicide loss, including her own, "The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother's Suicide."
Free to What?: Reading Zadie Smith at a Best Western in Texas
While traveling in Texas, Aisha Sabatini Sloan takes in the culture and Zadie Smith’s “Feel Free.”
My Small America: An Interview with Hanif Abdurraqib
On aging rappers, Confederate statues, baseball logos, and surviving Donald Trump.
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