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I Did Not Know Gary Indiana
Evan Grillon remembers the legendary writer Gary Indiana.
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca
Is It Possible Not to Die of AIDS?
Joshua Gutterman Tranen speaks with Keiko Lane about her memoir “Blood Loss: A Love Story of AIDS, Activism, and Art.”
Another Chance at This Dilapidated Earth
Lauren Markham considers personal and planetary grief, longing, and estrangement in her review of Laura Marris’s “The Age of Loneliness.”
32 Strips of Paper
Tom Zoellner considers Tim Z. Hernandez’s “They Call You Back: A Lost History, A Search, A Memoir,” about the book that helped solve mysteries associated with a 1948 plane crash.
You’ve Got to Let This Razor Blade into Your Life
Tim Riley reviews Robert Hilburn’s “A Few Words In Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman.”
Every Abyss Is a Matter of Time
Alina Stefanescu reviews “The Use of Photography” by Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie, newly translated into English by Alison L. Strayer.
More Than an Object of Vardolatry
Conor Williams reviews Carrie Rickey’s “A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda.”
America Is Faustian
Gregory Laski interviews Ed Simon about “Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain.”
Kipling in Langley
Was the CIA more a product of the 19th-century Great Game than the 20th-century Cold War? Greg Barnhisel reviews “The CIA: An Imperial History” by Hugh Wilford.
American Mythology
Is the United States a prisoner of its own mythology? Tom Zoellner looks at “A Great Disorder” by Richard Slotkin.
Back Seat Witness-Bearing
Anna Marie Cain interviews Sarah Gerard about “Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable.”
They Haven’t Kept Austin Weird
Bill Thompson reviews Alex Hannaford’s “Lost in Austin: The Evolution of an American City.”
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