Jenny Diski is Getting On With It
Diski’s essays on death hold these things together brilliantly, somehow even beautifully. Her writing, which weaves without warning between a methodical, detailed account of treatment and the daily...
View ArticleOn “Sex Object: A Memoir”: An Interview with Jessica Valenti
"For a long time, there’s been this notion that men’s memoirs are conveying universal experiences, whereas women’s stories are self-indulgent, salacious—just too much. You see it in reviews—if a woman...
View ArticleSummer 2016
Susan Choi stirs the waters in the 2016 Hopwood Lecture, Pearl Abraham surprises with unexpected connections between political and private wrongdoing, Natalie Bakopoulos sorts through the tangled...
View ArticleOn “The Art of Waiting”: An Interview with Belle Boggs
"Some people take issue with calling infertility a disease, but I think that’s the only way we can advocate for better awareness and insurance coverage, so that people have choices. And my point was...
View Article“Deep Throat,” by Pearl Abraham
In 1974, the year Richard Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment, my father, a man with rabbinic aspirations, was deep in his own pickle, indicted for conspiracy and fraud in the federal summer school...
View ArticleFrom the Archive: "Serious Noticing," by James Wood
Emerson once said that society was a mob, conspiring against the sovereign strength of the self. Now we are an electronic mob, and the forces of distraction are powerfully arrayed against us. It has...
View ArticleOn “Imagine Wanting Only This”: An Interview with Kristen Radtke
"I like drawing because it’s immediate — it hits us faster than prose writing. And I like pairing writing with images; you can get a sense of the background space and scene — stuff that wouldn’t...
View ArticleThe Subversive Flâneuse: An Interview with Lauren Elkin
"The politics of visibility in urban space are immensely complex and intersectional; we’re all out there navigating the streets as best we can, and hoping to get something out of it."
View ArticleTo Describe Our World: An Interview with Kevin O’Rourke
"Unless one practices medicine or works with medical literature, one is unlikely to encounter the enormous mass of words used to describe the things that go wrong with us. But the words are out there,...
View ArticleRequired Reading: Dan Beachy-Quick’s “Of Silence and Song”
Of Silence and Song doesn’t just reward close, attentive reading. In fact, it demands it. Of Silence and Song is a highly lyric book, advancing a series of impressions rather than the march of a...
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