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A Source of Spectacle
Mario Bellatin reveals all and (almost) nothing at all.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Living for Art: A Conversation with Rob Spillman
Rob Spillman comes down from the ledge.
Forms of Living and Dying: The Posthumous Essays of “Becoming Earth”
Brenda Miller reviews Eva Saulitis’s posthumous essays that reflect on living and dying with cancer.
The Hidden Dying of Doctors: What the Humanities Can Teach Medicine, and Why We All Need Medicine to Learn It
There is an equally heartbreaking loss of another young doctor in Paul Kalanithi’s book, one especially troubling because it received almost no commentary.
“There Are No Rules for Coloring”: Chris Offutt on His Father
A review of Chris Offutt’s memoir of his father, a science-fiction writer and pornographer.
That’s Inspiration!: Rereading Annie Dillard
Sometimes aesthetic beauty is a window, sometimes it is a curtain. Annie Dillard makes beautiful work either way.
“Black Dove”: Ana Castillo’s Memoir of Motherhood
Ana Castillo has a new memoir about being a daughter, and being a mother.
Last Exit to Brooklyn
"Last Exit to Brooklyn" was actually shooting around the corner that summer — I signed on as an extra but my scenes didn’t make the final cut.
Man on the Run: Rob Spillman’s “All Tomorrow’s Parties”
It’s the journey, not the destination, in Rob Spillman’s new memoir "All Tomorrow's Parties".
On Literature and Entitlement
Peter LaSalle follows the literal footsteps of Borges, Flaubert, Malcolm Lowry, and Nathanael West, though he has a way of veering off-course.
City (Not) on Fire
An essay from the Spring 2016 edition of the LARB Quarterly Journal.
Closer, Truer, Wilder
In Sonja Livingston's "Ladies Night at the Dreamland", the ladies are apparitions — as is the author herself, fading in and out, haunting these pages.
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