"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Linda Kinstler considers two Lithuanian Jewish memorial endeavors, Grigory Kanovich's novel “Shtetl Love Song” and his son Sergey’s “Lost Shtetl” project.
James Atlas chronicles the pleasures and perils of literary biography.
On how Mireille Gansel guides us.
To read "Translation as Transhumance" is to transhume with Mireille Gansel as she cultivates a multidimensional understanding of language.
Sariah Dorbin asks Kim Adrian a few questions about her new book in the "Object Lesson" series, "Sock."
Heather Altfeld savors Anne Fadiman's "The Wine Lover’s Daughter."
You feel, when Sviatoslav Richter is playing, as if this music will be heard once, and then dissolve forever.
A new anthology on the social pressures of passing.
Morten Høi Jensen is swayed but not blinded by the flash of Elizabeth Hardwick’s inimitable essays.
A new memoir about refugee teenagers in a Denver high school.
Jonathan Alexander on the hauntology of sexual violence in Myriam Gurba’s difficult but impactful new memoir/true crime tale, “Mean.”
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett reviews a volume of essays by Martin J. Smith.
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