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Making It in L.A.: A Review of “L.A. Man”
Emily Beaver on a collection of interviews and profiles of various Los Angeles characters by a longtime local journalist.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Higher Loyalty? James Comey and the Failure of Leadership
Unintentionally, "A Higher Loyalty" teaches us more about “ethical leadership” by showing not what Comey has done in his career but what he has failed to do.
William S. Burroughs and the Biosphere, 1974–1997
Kathelin Gray tells the strange tale of William S. Burroughs and the Biosphere.
Keep Showing Up: A Q-and-A with “This Is How I Save My Life” Memoirist Amy B. Scher
Discussing the mind-body connection, intergenerational trauma, and self-generated healing.
High-Tech Bildungsroman: The Hysterical Optimism of Silicon Valley
On the cynical libertarianism of our high-tech Horatio Algers.
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.
“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?"
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