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Septemberland, How to Find Your Way in a Post-9/11 Dystopian World

Fiction, Memoir & Essay

Septemberland, How to Find Your Way in a Post-9/11 Dystopian World

Jordan Elgrably

Jordan Elgrably reviews "When All Else Fails" by Rayyan Al-Shawaf and "When We Were Arabs" by Massoud Hayoun.

No One Is Nothing: On “Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA’s Graffiti Subculture”

Art & Architecture, Memoir & Essay, Cultural Studies

No One Is Nothing: On “Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA’s Graffiti Subculture”

Ryan Gattis

Ryan Gattis reviews Stefano Bloch's new book.

Elizabeth Wurtzel and the Feminist Disability Memoir

Memoir & Essay

Elizabeth Wurtzel and the Feminist Disability Memoir

Patricia Grisafi

Elizabeth Wurtzel changed how we think about memoir — and mental illness.

A Personal Journey: On “Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World”

Around the World, Politics, Memoir & Essay

A Personal Journey: On “Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World”

Todd Miller

A political memoir of 15 years spent in exile.

The Stories Silicon Valley Tells Itself in Order to Live: A Conversation with Anna Wiener

Science & Technology, Memoir & Essay

The Stories Silicon Valley Tells Itself in Order to Live: A Conversation with Anna Wiener

Sam Jaffe Goldstein

Anna Wiener discusses her new memoir about working in Silicon Valley.

Abandoning Your Religion

Religion, Memoir & Essay

Abandoning Your Religion

Tucker Coombe

Tucker Coombe reviews "Leaving the Witness" and "Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church."

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Both Coasts: An Interview with Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Both Coasts: An Interview with Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Adam J. Fitzgerald

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Before “American Dirt,” There Was “The Korean Angela’s Ashes”

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Before “American Dirt,” There Was “The Korean Angela’s Ashes”

Marie Myung-Ok Lee

The “American Dirt” dustup recalls another publishing fiasco.

Rewriting McCullers

Memoir & Essay, Gender & Sexuality

Rewriting McCullers

Ellie Duke

Ellie Duke explores the biographer’s role in biography in a review of Jenn Shapland’s “My Autobiography of Carson McCullers.”

Renovating the House of Fiction: On Rachel Cusk’s “Coventry”

Memoir & Essay

Renovating the House of Fiction: On Rachel Cusk’s “Coventry”

Donal Harris

Donal Harris reviews Rachel Cusk’s new essay collection, “Coventry.”

Navigation Through Longing: On Laurie Stone’s “Everything is Personal: Notes on Now”

Memoir & Essay, Cultural Studies

Navigation Through Longing: On Laurie Stone’s “Everything is Personal: Notes on Now”

Daisy Alioto

Daisy Alioto reviews Laurie Stone’s latest book, “Everything is Personal: Notes on Now.”

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