An essay collection that speaks to personal experience while demonstrating broader truths about race in America.
Writing About Real People: An Interview with Briallen Hopper
In this interview, Charlee Dyroff talks to Briallen Hopper about her new essay collection, Hard to Love, out February 5, 2019.
How to Die Old in Chongqing
The Chinese have a saying, "The judgment on one is final only when the lid on the coffin is closed."
My Barber Left New York City Before I Did
For nearly 10 years, my haircuts were cheap and they were good. To me, in fact, they were excellent.
12 Nonfiction Books We’re Excited About in 2019
Twelve forthcoming releases that have our non-fiction loving hearts all aflutter, from works by icons like Toni Morrison to rising stars like Jia Tolentino.
You Can’t Play It Safe: An Interview with Meghan Daum
If there’s something that you know, deep down, to be true, you will feel it in your gut, and that’s what you should write.
Review: On Sunset by Kathryn Harrison
Kathryn Harrison says, with a wink to the reader: “I feel no allegiance to this hypothetical child who complicates what is simple.”
From Solitaire to Solidarity
There are cameras in the cacti, drones in the sky, motion sensors buried in the ground: a Panopticon without limit or form.
Review: Heartland by Sarah Smarsh
As Smarsh unfolds her family's story, she offers sharp commentary on the structures that both shame the poor and perpetuate the cycle of poverty.
Review: Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
The book’s final line is a warning as much as an entreaty: “Don’t ever let them talk you out of being mad again.”
An Honest Assessment
Injuries accreted. Bones were broken. And yet, I always recovered. Until I did not.
Defining Veteran Identity in the Age of the Forever Wars
Matthew Komatsu traces the changing sense of veteran identity in the United States, from Vietnam to Afghanistan and Iraq.