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Sun, Hum, and Shade
Matt Seidel reviews Martha Cooley's "Guesswork: A Reckoning With Loss."
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
A Safe Place
Heather Scott Partington on Yiyun Li's "Dear Friend, From My Life I Write To You in Your Life."
Getting “Woke”: Mary Gaitskill’s “Somebody with a Little Hammer”
Is there enough new material by Gaitskill in "Somebody with a Little Hammer"? Sariah Dorbin weighs in.
Majoring in Discomfort: John Domini Interviews David Shields
David Shields on "Other People: Takes & Mistakes," the problems of Kundera, and why Gary Cooper walks the way he does.
Wade in the Water: An Interview with Monica A. Coleman
Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn talks to Monica A. Coleman about her faith in God, moving to Los Angeles, and her memoir, "Bipolar Faith."
Little Drawings Make a Life: On Vanessa Davis’s “Spaniel Rage”
Seamus O'Malley on the small pleasures of Vanessa Davis's "Spaniel Rage."
Take My Mother, Please!
Annabelle Gurwitch on Phillip Lopate's "A Mother's Tale."
The Alchemy of Pain: Melissa Febos’s “Abandon Me”
Ellen Wayland-Smith on Melissa Febos’s “Abandon Me.”
Yielding to Necessity: An Interview with Melissa Febos
David Gordon talks to Melissa Febos about Rilke, Tennyson, and her new book, "Abandon Me."
The Nature of the Beast
Lisa Fetchko on Daphne Merkin's memoir "This Close to Happy" and the literary difficulties of capturing the minutiae of depression.
The Whole Point About War: On Lara Pawson’s “This Is the Place to Be”
Houman Barekat on journalist Lara Pawson's memoir, "This Is the Place to Be."
Inner Soundtracks and Apparitions: Joe Bonomo’s Selected Work
Joshua James Amberson reviews "Field Recordings from the Inside" by Joe Bonomo.
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