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Come Hell, Come Husbands
Finding solace and strength in Karen Karbo's "In Praise of Difficult Women."
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
“There Are No ‘Other’ People”: A Conversation with Katja Petrowskaja
Maya Caspari interviews Katja Petrowskaja about her book, “Maybe Esther: A Family Story.”
“Tell Me How to Get to Babi Yar”: On Katja Petrowskaja’s “Maybe Esther: A Family Story”
Linda Kinstler contemplates “Maybe Esther: A Family Story” by Katja Petrowskaja.
High and Wide
A Border Patrol agent writes about the futility of his job, but some of his dispatches hit home more than others.
Fly as Hell: An Interview with Greg Tate
Leah Mirakhor interviews author, musician, and cultural critic Greg Tate.
Forms and Fractures: A Non-Mother’s Hunger for the Writing of Motherhood
I find myself wondering if these motherhood-books are slim as though to offset the terrifying gravitas of mothering itself, or for a more practical reason.
Outside It Is Already Winter: Two New Books on Stalinist Terror
Patrick Kurp on “The Day Will Pass Away: The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard: 1935-1936” and “Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial.”
Indicting the System
A memoir from the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Playing the Girl: Ten False Starts (After Janet Malcolm)
Karen Karbo tries to review "You Play the Girl" by Carina Chocano.
You Belong Here: A Conversation with Aditi Khorana and Sara Saedi
Juliana Romano talks to Aditi Khorana and Sara Saedi about their new books.
“The Newcomers” Is an Antidote to Anti-Refugee Rhetoric Invading Politics
Jennifer Oldham interviews Helen Thorpe about "The Newcomers," in which she recounts the time she spent with teenage refugees as they learned English.
“Therapy Is an Imitation of Writing”: An Interview with Daniel Raeburn
Daniel Raeburn talks about his beautifully composed book "Vessels: A Love Story," a haunting memoir of a marriage tested by tragedy.
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