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A Love Affair with a Tree: What One Red Oak Can Teach Us About Climate Change
The tale of a love affair between a reporter and a tree.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
The Truth About Fairy Tales
Emilie Beck reviews Heather Harpham's "Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After."
In the Key That Our Souls Were Singing
Matthew Zapruder is persuasive and optimistic enough to make one feel patriotic about poetry.
The Last Bastion of Free America?: Meagan Day’s “Maximum Sunlight”
Olivia Durif reviews Meaghan Day’s book about Tonopah, Nevada.
Not Dead Yet: An Interview with Scaachi Koul
Orly Minazad interviews Scaachi Koul about her first book, “One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter.”
Delectatio Morosa: On Fleur Jaeggy’s “These Possible Lives”
Emily LaBarge is transported by “These Possible Lives,” a collection of essays by Fleur Jaeggy.
Real Culture: Jonathan Lethem on “Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop From Elvis to Jay Z”
Scott Timberg and Jonathan Lethem talk about his anthology of music criticism, “Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop From Elvis to Jay Z.”
Literature as Life: Sergio Pitol’s “Trilogy of Memory”
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado reflects on Sergio Pitol's "Trilogy of Memory," now out in full from Deep Vellum Publishing.
The Damage Done
Clifford Thompson considers the strengths and shortcomings of Roxane Gay's "Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body."
Bookish Basketball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Latest
Seth Greenland reviews Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's new memoir, "Coach Wooden and Me."
Black-and-Gray Realism
Jason S. Sexton connects to the story of legendary Los Angeles tattoo artists Freddy Negrete, as told in his memoir, “Smile Now, Cry Later.”
One Mystery Will Solve Another: Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s “The Fact of a Body”
Alice Bolin on Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s hybrid of true crime and memoir, “The Fact of a Body.”
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