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The Intimate Portrait of a Generation: Annie Ernaux’s “The Years”
Azarin Sadegh reviews Annie Ernaux's memoir, recently translated by Alison L. Strayer.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Stephen Elliott on Domesticity, Queerness, and Britney Spears
Lee Matalone interviews Stephen Elliott, author of new essay collection “Sometimes I Think About It” and rereleased novel “Happy Baby.”
Figuring It out in the Air: On “The Education of a Young Poet”
Lisa Fetchko reviews David Biespiel’s memoir about his coming to consciousness as a poet.
The Summoning World: Mary Oliver’s (Re)Visionary Legacy
Nicola Waldron reviews Mary Oliver's "Upstream: Selected Essays."
Reading Audre Lorde’s “Sister Outsider” After Charlottesville
Antoinette Nwandu reads “Sister Outsider” by Audre Lorde after Charlottesville.
The Ins and Outs of Europe’s Deep Establishment
Stan Persky looks at Yanis Varoufakis's "Adults in the Room," the memoir of Varoufakis's brief tenure as Greece’s minister of finance in 2015.
“A Beautiful Space That Slips Away”: Philippe Soupault and the French Avant-Garde
A review of French Surrealist Philippe Soupault’s memoirs.
The Limits of Metaphor: Jeannie Vanasco’s “The Glass Eye”
Andrew Schenker appreciates “The Glass Eye” by Jeannie Vanasco, a memoir that explores the search for meaning and the limits of metaphor.
I Am Something That You’ll Never Comprehend: Remembering Prince
Sara Scribner considers three books that try to get at the essence of Prince.
Culture Is Armor: On Adam Gopnik and the Necessity of the Cultural Intellectual
On Adam Gopnik as a public intellectual.
Grown-Up Desires
Susan Barr-Toman considers the essays in Andrea Jarrell's "I’m the One Who Got Away."
Hiking with Emerson
Skye C. Cleary interviews professor John Kaag about his recent book, "American Philosophy: A Love Story."
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