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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."
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Inner Soundtracks and Apparitions: Joe Bonomo’s Selected Work
Joshua James Amberson reviews "Field Recordings from the Inside" by Joe Bonomo.
Waveforms and the Women’s March
Briallen Hopper on what we can learn from the Women's March.
A Separation: Sheila Kohler’s “Once We Were Sisters”
Jean Hey looks at Sheila Kohler's new memoir.
Forgotten Accounts: Didion’s “South and West”
Didion's latest "South and West": irredeemably past, and yet speaking to the current impasse.
Part Company: The Ballad of The Go-Betweens
Chris O’Leary reviews Robert Forster’s memoir “Grant & I: Inside and Outside the Go-Betweens.”
Born a Crime: A Memoir of Love, Hope, and Resistance
Jeneé Darden on the harrowing love between mother and son in Trevor Noah's "Born a Crime."
For When Nothing Happens: Peter Orner on Stories
Shaun Miller on Peter Orner's "Am I Alone Here?"
In Memoriam: The Optimistic Jurist
Judge William A. Norris recalls his path to the Ninth Circuit in "Liberal Opinions: My Life in the Stream of History."
The Heat and the Hustle: Leonardo Lucarelli
Leonardo Lucarelli offers a few choice scenes to savor in "Mincemeat," but is the whole meal worth it?
Ulterior Designs: Marc Nieson’s “Schoolhouse”
Matt Seidel on Marc Nieson's "Schoolhouse."
Getting Her Way: The Latest by Lynne Tillman
Susan Scarf Merrell on Lynne Tillman's "The Complete Madame Realism: And Other Stories."
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