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The Oak, the Oakling, and the Cellar Book: A Fête of Fadimans
Heather Altfeld savors Anne Fadiman's "The Wine Lover’s Daughter."
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
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You feel, when Sviatoslav Richter is playing, as if this music will be heard once, and then dissolve forever.
Passing and Being Passed Over in the United States
A new anthology on the social pressures of passing.
Flash and Lumber: Elizabeth Hardwick’s Essays
Morten Høi Jensen is swayed but not blinded by the flash of Elizabeth Hardwick’s inimitable essays.
Class Acts
A new memoir about refugee teenagers in a Denver high school.
Other People’s Children, Part 3, or Ghost Touches: Myriam Gurba’s “Mean” and Sexual Violence
Jonathan Alexander on the hauntology of sexual violence in Myriam Gurba’s difficult but impactful new memoir/true crime tale, “Mean.”
Second Chances: The Essays of Martin J. Smith
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett reviews a volume of essays by Martin J. Smith.
The Fucked-Up Thing Is You Don’t Know You’re Burning: A Conversation with Kiese Laymon
Aisha Sabatini Sloan and Kiese Laymon in dialogue.
“It’s the Disease, Not the Individual”: A Talk with Zack McDermott
Zack McDermott, author of the memoir "Gorilla and the Bird," talks with LARB about mental illness and criminal justice reform.
Will We Ever Talk Pretty?: David Sedaris and the American Struggle with Foreign Languages
Colin Marshall contemplates David Sedaris’s experiences with language-learning.
The Guy in the Kitchen
Susan McCallum-Smith and Andrew O’Hagan discuss Julian Assange, Bitcoin, the invention of Ronald Pinn, and O'Hagan's latest book, "The Secret Life."
The Most Beautiful Tree: On Christopher Merrill’s “Self-Portrait with Dogwood”
Noah Blaustein appreciates “Self-Portrait with Dogwood,” a book of nonfiction by Christopher Merrill.
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