Memorial Driveby Natasha Tretheway
reviewed by Jessica Ciccarelli
In her memoir Memorial Drive, Natasha Trethewey tells the harrowing [...]
Driving-a-Car Freedom: An Interview with Louis MenandLouis Menand interviewed by Christian Schlegel
Professor Louis Menand has taught English at Harvard College for [...]
Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscowby Alexander Radishchev, translated by Andrew Kahn and Irina Reyfman
reviewed by Helen Stuhr-Rommereim
While Alexander Radishchev’s 1790 Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow [...]
Lunch with Borgesby Michael Larkin
It is a hot summer day in Texas in 1973 [...]
Self-Portraitby Celia Paul
reviewed by Hall W. Rockefeller
The artist biography is an easily justified genre—the glamorized, fraught [...]
Let Me Tell You What I Meanby Joan Didion
reviewed by Maia Silber
In a lecture she gave at the University of California, [...]
Kant’s Little Prussian Head & Other Reasons Why I Writeby Claire Messud
reviewed by Peter Dziedzic
In a year of crisis, many have asked: where can [...]
Volcán Tajumulcoby Jennifer De Leon
We left before dawn. We met in front of the [...]
Eastern North Carolinaby Meaghan Mulholland
DISPATCHES from a pandemic Eastern [...]
How To Make A Slave and Other Essaysby Jerald Walker
reviewed by Caleb J. Gayle
Well-meaning people dedicate their lives to naming things, but perhaps [...]