-
November 24, 2021
Diane di Prima and the Dream of the East Village Avant-Garde
The poet’s recently released memoir of the 1960s, Spring and Autumn Annals, is an essential document in the history of New York’s downtown art scene.
Lynne Feeley
-
October 20, 2021
The Mysteries of the Childhood Memoir
Richard Wollheim’s Germs is a brilliant and curious example of a genre dedicated to unraveling the riddles of a time we have a hard time remembering.
John Banville
-
October 13, 2021
The Unsure State of Asian America
A conversation with Jay Caspian Kang about how the term “Asian American” became “mostly meaningless.”
Rosemarie Ho
-
October 4, 2021
Grace Cho’s Memoir of Food and Empire
Intertwining a personal story of Korean food ways and a family history caught in the midst of violence, Tastes Like War tests the limits, and shows the power, of memoir.
E. Tammy Kim
-
August 11, 2021
Seeing the Climate Crisis Through the Eyes of Henry Thoreau
“I walk toward one of our ponds,” Thoreau wrote in “Slavery in Massachusetts,” “but what signifies the beauty of nature when men are base?”
Wen Stephenson
-
GET UNLIMITED DIGITAL ACCESS FOR LESS THAN $3 A MONTH!
-
August 4, 2021
Luchita Hurtado’s Spiritual Modernism
Her paintings strove to convey the ways sublime experience could be found in nature and the body.
Max Pearl
-
June 28, 2021
Annette Gordon-Reed’s Personal History of Juneteenth
In her new book, Gordon-Reed reminds us that besides offering us origin stories the past can also provides us with a way to think about the present and future.
Robert Greene II
-
June 15, 2021
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.
Haley Mlotek
-
June 3, 2021
The Misplaced Hope of Understanding Police From the Inside
Law professor Rosa Brooks became a volunteer cop to show how policing might be fixed. But are the police beyond reform?
Katie Way
-
May 20, 2021
Did ‘Cancel Culture’ Drive Richard Wright Underground?
On “Memories of My Grandmother” and The Man Who Lived Underground.
Joseph G. Ramsey