“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.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
“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.
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.
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.
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