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Just Grace
“A Grace Paley Reader” contains a sampling of the wisdom that one woman gleaned from not taking the easy way out.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Slight Exaggeration: An Interview with Adam Zagajewski
Louise Steinman talks to poet Adam Zagajewski about his new memoir, "Slight Exaggeration."
Grandfathers and Child Molesters
Writing about a pedophile and murderer led Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich to write about her own family.
A Tapestry of Fame and Failure
Noah Kennedy reviews George Prochnik's "Stranger in a Strange Land."
Thought Against Life: Cyrus Console’s “Romanian Notebook”
Michael W. Clune on Cyrus Console’s “Romanian Notebook.”
Navigating Identities Past and Present in Susan Faludi’s “In the Darkroom”
Will Clark on the complications of identity, history and the body in Susan Faludi’s “In the Darkroom.”
Stay Hungry
Kathryn O’Shea-Evans digs into Amy Thielen's "Give a Girl a Knife."
Under Siege
Mickey Revenaugh reviews Anne Elizabeth Moore's "Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes."
The Strange, Irreverent Worlds of “Down Below” and “The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington”
Emily Wells looks at two new rereleases from Leonora Carrington.
The World Coming at Us Backward
Richard Kearney on Fanny Howe's "The Needle's Eye."
A Murderer, a Martyr, a Daughter, a Lover: Four Ways of Looking at Abortion
A crop of new books — a novel and three memoirs — add complexity to the seemingly insurmountable national divide over abortion.
Only Desert in China Lake
Kevin Zambrano on Barret Baumgart's "China Lake: A Journey into the Contradicted Heart of a Global Climate Catastrophe."
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