Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
A Rich Contribution to Supreme Court Literature
Jean Rosenbluth reviews Bryan A. Garner's "Nino and Me: My Unusual Friendship with Justice Antonin Scalia."
Come Hell, Come Husbands
Finding solace and strength in Karen Karbo's "In Praise of Difficult Women."
“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.
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