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Modern-Day Oracles: On Alice Wong’s “Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life”
Laura Mauldin reviews “Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life” by Alice Wong.
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca
“Entrepreneurs in Bodily Capital”: On Lisa Uperesa’s “Gridiron Capital: How American Football Became a Samoan Game”
David Lipset reviews Lisa Uperesa’s anthropological study “Gridiron Capital: How American Football Became a Samoan Game.”
Tasty Waves
Surf expert Michael Scott Moore braves Patrick Moser’s “Surf and Rescue: George Freeth and the Birth of California Beach Culture.”
“History Really Is a Human Story”: A Conversation with A. M. Homes
Yvonne Conza speaks with A. M. Homes about her new novel, “The Unfolding.”
Making a Life’s Work of Death: On Hayley Campbell’s “All the Living and the Dead”
Jeannine Burgdorf reviews Hayley Campbell’s new book “All the Living and the Dead.”
Autocracy and Historical Accidents: On Katie Stallard’s “Dancing on Bones” and Joseph W. Esherick’s “Accidental Holy Land”
Ed Pulford considers Katie Stallard’s “Dancing on Bones” and Joseph W. Esherick’s “Accidental Holy Land.”
The Land Is a Body
Yangyang Cheng reviews Ruth Rogaski’s “Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland” and Victor Seow’s “Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia.”
A “Lost Cause” Finds His Way: On Isaac Fitzgerald’s “Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional”
Dorian Fox explores Isaac Fitzgerald’s journey from low self-esteem to success in “Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional.”
What Makes a Millennial?
Sarah Wasserman questions the defining boundaries and problematic categorizations carried by our culture's treatment of the label "millennial."
Plummeting Upstairs: On Joseph Sassoon's “The Sassoons”
Pratinav Anil finds much to admire in Joseph Sassoon’s history of his own storied merchant family.
Love Me Like a Rock
Marnie Goodfriend recalls the end of her relationship with a verbally abusive boyfriend.
Cold Case in the Family: A Conversation with Wayne Hoffman
Lisa J. Wise interviews Wayne Hoffman about “The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer’s to Solve a Murder.”
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