“Malleable Memory”
For Roberge, all scraps of remembrance coexist on the page, as if to remind us that memory is associative.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Five Blockbuster Evolutionary Insights and One Wild Life: Robert Trivers
Robert Trivers is the preeminent living evolutionist of our time.
Grief and Transformation
"The Narrow Door" is a memoir about how grief transforms us.
Haunted: A Conversation with Rob Roberge
Jerry Stahl interviews Rob Roberge.
Space Jew, or, Walter Benjamin Among the Stars
If Walter Benjamin had been quicker to flee the Nazis, he might have stood in India during the twilight years of the Raj and experienced the stars anew.
Down Dog by Anonymous
Ellen Collett's "Down Dog by Anonymous."
Portrait of the Artist as Incendiary
On "The Blue Touch Paper," a new memoir by Sir David Hare.
Chasing Particles Is Fun
"A Singularly Unfeminine Profession" is more a blueprint for a fabulous book than a fully realized one, but it sparks discussion.
How John DeLorean Took Us Back to the Future
Rex Weiner recounts his coverage of auto industry magnate John DeLorean's trial.
Why Is Mario Vargas Llosa Complaining?
What moved a novelist of the stature of Mario Vargas Llosa — in a work of nonfiction — to unburden himself of a long list of complaints?
Long Lasting Shadows
Norman Manea on "A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz" by Goran Rosenberg.
Magritte in Koreatown
Bonnie Johnson on the history and legacy of LA's iconic Brown Derby restaurants.
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