The Greatest Love Is Grieving The Greatest Love Is Grieving
I spent years as a labor organizer. Marguerite Duras’s war novel taught me that the strongest fighters are always the women hurting the most.
Mar 7, 2026 / Haley Mlotek
Joan Didion’s Long View Joan Didion’s Long View
Her new essay collection, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, captures what about her writing feels at once seductive and illusory.
Jun 15, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Haley Mlotek
Revolution & #Resistance: The Life and Times of Lauren Duca Revolution & #Resistance: The Life and Times of Lauren Duca
She wants to lead a youth movement, but her first book says more about a media ecosystem that helped produce her than radical action.
Nov 21, 2019 / Haley Mlotek
The Maddening Genius of Lynne Tillman The Maddening Genius of Lynne Tillman
Her fiction and non-fiction explores, in exacting detail, the lives of obsessives, offering a window into the inner workings of particularly intense minds.
Sep 30, 2019 / Haley Mlotek