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No Strangers Here
Refusing polarized narratives, Toni Morrison's "The Origin of Others" takes up the nebulous task of understanding what it is to estrange or make familiar.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Shame, Porn, and Perversion: On Erica Garza’s “Getting Off”
Kristin Sanders talks about sex, addiction, and technology in her review of Erica Garza’s new memoir, “Getting Off.”
North South East West
How could any of them have imagined that a border would divide them? How could anyone have predicted the horror that is now Korea, of being hacked in two?
Beyond the Gaze: Reclaiming the Female Form After Nochlin
Linda Nochlin, best known for her essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists,” died last October. She left a monumental legacy in art criticism.
In Youth Is Suffering: Denton Welch and the Literature of Convalescence
Identity and disability in the fictions of a neglected modernist.
Natural Philosopher: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “Winter”
Is Karl Ove Knausgaard’s literary sincerity a balm for those dealing with democratic turmoil?
Narcissist or Voyeur: On Ann Quin’s “The Unmapped Country”
Josie Mitchell surveys “The Unmapped Country: Stories and Fragments” by Ann Quin.
Frantic Transmissions: On Kate Braverman
On a quintessential Los Angeles writer.
Rebel Yale: Reading and Feeling “Hillbilly Elegy”
An article from 2018 illustrates how his refusal to speak directly about “issues” made J. D. Vance, now Donald Trump’s running mate, the new pundit for white people.
Lionel Rolfe and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Coffeehouses
Anthony Mostrom profiles legendary L.A. bohemian Lionel Rolfe and the coffeehouses in which he thrived.
To Petrify Time: On Grigory Kanovich’s “Shtetl Love Song” and Sergey Kanovich’s Lost Shtetl Project
Linda Kinstler considers two Lithuanian Jewish memorial endeavors, Grigory Kanovich's novel “Shtetl Love Song” and his son Sergey’s “Lost Shtetl” project.
Writing Lives: James Atlas on the Art of Biography
James Atlas chronicles the pleasures and perils of literary biography.
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