Long Lasting Shadows
Norman Manea on "A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz" by Goran Rosenberg.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Magritte in Koreatown
Bonnie Johnson on the history and legacy of LA's iconic Brown Derby restaurants.
The Hands of Robert Walser
On the many hands of Robert Walser.
On Shit: Profanity as Weltanschauung
The first time you hear your beloved 10-year-old say motherfucker: well, on that day something changes. Why does it disturb us so?
Survival Tactics
"Words are actions," Andy Robinson writes. "They can caress or kill."
Intimate with the Enemy: Why You Ought to Have Lunch with a Bigot
This collection of essays troubles our desire for intimacy, our desire that others be recognizable, familiar, and our relations with them comfortable.
Mansion of the Spirit
Leaving the United States wasn’t easy for Cisneros.
Memory Problems
"We Were Meant to Be a Gentle People" is a hybrid work of memoir, poetry, photography, and even music.
Facing the Music
Hynde and Brownstein tell us, with no other agenda than full disclosure, that they were lame — or in other words, lost and undone by their own desire.
My Life as a Woman
Born a man named William, I became Leigh Anne Williams, a woman who published 20 romance novels.
The Lightning Before Death: A Tribute to Clive James
Clive James's stature as a literary journalist and cultural critic ought to endure.
The Phone Is a Public Space
A phone — particularly a cell phone — is a social, public hub, but it also feels like an intimate object.
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