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May 12, 2021
Mike Gold, Avant-Garde Bard of Proletarian New York
A new biography charts Gold's many lives—as a novelist and journalist, as a working-class militant, and as a forerunner to the Beats.
J. Hoberman
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May 10, 2021
What ‘Girlhood’ Means in 2021
A conversation with Melissa Febos about her radical essays on youth and gender.
Naomi Gordon-Loebl
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May 6, 2021
The Brutal Transcendence of Tove Ditlevsen
By resisting all of memoir’s conventions, the Danish writer tells the story of her life more painfully and beautifully.
Marie Solis
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April 28, 2021
The Art of the Memoir With Japanese Breakfast
A conversation with indie pop artist Michelle Zauner on cooking, grieving, and the role politics plays in music.
Rosemarie Ho
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April 26, 2021
The Craft of John Edgar Wideman
A conversation with one of the greatest living Black American writers on work, life, and why good fiction is like a game of basketball.
Elias Rodriques
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March 11, 2021
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March 11, 2021
Mike Davis: ‘Beware the Light at the End of the Covid Tunnel’
Plus Amy Wilentz on Michelle Obama’s Becoming.
Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
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December 11, 2020
How Bob Dylan Wrote the Second Great American Songbook
The sale of the singer-songwriter’s catalogue is a reminder of his massive cultural legacy.
Jeet Heer
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December 10, 2020
The Vanishing Queer Underground of Los Angeles
Reynaldo Rivera’s photos of the city's nightlife document a time of cheap rent and possibility.
Kate Wolf
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December 7, 2020
Roberto Lovato’s Journalism of the Soul
In his memoir Unforgetting, he shows how reportage that is rooted in personal biography and inner turmoil can unveil a more powerful kind of truth.
Kyle Paoletta