Finding Your Shambolic Magic
"In the All-Night Café" describes the year before the release of "Tigermilk" and helps to explain how Belle and Sebastian's sound was a product of their environment.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Questionable Candor and PTSD
Could a woman's desire to get close to a convicted murderer stem from PTSD?
Rules and Rituals, Time Capsules and Tap Handles
Heidi Julavits talks with Chantal McStay about keeping a diary and "The Folded Clock."
The Method Singer
In his new biography, John Szwed argues Billie Holiday was a method actor: she burrowed to the core of the song, determined what type of person might be voicing such sentiments in what kind of situation, and let that guide her interpretation of it.
What I Was Flying Toward: An Interview with Helen Macdonald
I realized that the story wasn’t just about a miserable woman and a bird, it was about life and death.
The Significance of Philip Glass
“Philip Glass has become, whether he likes it or not, a name on a list of sound-material used to induce states of mind.”
Queering the Momoir
Is there something inherently queer about pregnancy itself?
Bad Dad
Tomlinson hasn't overcome the pain of yearning for a father who was unavailable. But she has taken that pain and used it to make herself a writer.
Our Diaries, Ourselves
Moving fluidly between the trivial and profound, Julavits shows what a diary can do. It’s a vivid counterpoint to Manguso’s serious disavowal of the form.
Cloudbusting
The cloud buster would give us rain. My father would be proven right about everything.
Ordinary Lives and Other Accidents
How catastrophe, medical errors, natural disasters, and unchecked exuberance push people to the solitary edges of social life.
Waiting for Giorgio
There was a time when young scholars were encouraged to train with their mentors, instead of just absorbing ideas from the page (or the screen).
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