“This Feeling Will Never Leave Me”: On Yelena and Galina Lembersky’s “Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour”
Herb Randall plunges into “Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour,” a memoir of art, imprisonment, and emigration by Yelena and Galina Lembersky....
A Boy Is Beautiful: On Edgar Gomez’s “High-Risk Homosexual”
Trey Burnette reviews Edgar Gomez’s debut memoir, “High-Risk Homosexual.”...
Toward a Radical Hope and a World-Changing Rage: A Conversation with Preti Taneja
Preti Taneja discusses her new book “Aftermath,” about a 2019 terror attack....
Surviving the “Atro-city”: On Preti Taneja’s “Aftermath”
Preti Taneja’s new book is a complex meditation on the 2019 London Bridge terror attack....
Define Yourself: Riva Lehrer’s and Jan Grue’s Disability Memoirs
Goldie Goldbloom compares Riva Lehrer’s “Golem Girl” to Jan Grue’s “I Live a Life Like Yours” and explores their contributions to literature....
Diet Coke and a Game of Chess: The Radical Work of Eve Babitz and Joan Didion
Nikki Darling pays homage to two women authors forever associated with Los Angeles....
Our Senses at Night: On Teju Cole’s “Black Paper”
Thomas J. Millay looks at "Black Paper," the latest book from Teju Cole....
Cold Fever
A memoir of the Far North....
Songs of Their Selves: On Lucille Clifton’s “Generations”
Maddie Crum considers “Generations” by Lucille Clifton....
(Un)certainty and Assumptions of the Archive: On Monica Huerta’s “Magical Habits”
Reading Monica Huerta’s “Magical Habits,” Rosa Boshier wonders how to live a life alongside scholarship....
Escaping the Darkness: On J. M. Thompson’s “Running Is a Kind of Dreaming”
J. M. Thompson writes a memoir about addiction, hard-won sobriety, and marathon running....
Secrets, Omissions, the Unknown: On Victoria Chang’s “Dear Memory”
Heather Scott Partington explores Victoria Chang’s “Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief.”...
