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When Newspapers Cover the Private Lives of Nazis
Ordinary details can furnish a room, they can set a table, they can fill the time between hushed meetings of planned genocide.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
God Save the Queen: Seven Stories about Elizabeth II
From her education to the careful plans for her funeral, seven stories on the long-reigning monarch.
Posted inNonfiction
Finding the Soundtrack to My Desert Life
In the ’90s, discovering the music of Friends of Dean Martinez helped Aaron Gilbreath stop running and appreciate life in his native Arizona.
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women, Writing
A Storyteller, Unbecoming
On showing, telling, and finding one’s way as a literary writer of color.
Posted inBooks, Food, Nonfiction, Story
“We All Had the Same Acid Flashback at the Same Time”: The New American Cuisine
How the scruffy kids of the ’60s youth movement turned cooking from a shameful job into a lauded profession.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
A Girl’s Guide to Missiles
A professor returns to the California military base where she grew up to make sense of her family’s role developing weapons for the US government.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Jenny Diski: 1947-2016
Jenny Diski died this morning at the age of 68. Here are nine stories celebrating Diski and her work.
Posted inBooks, Reading List
The Tender, Wild Realm of Children’s Literature: A Reading List
The plot of the book came to me as I was falling asleep: two girls share a bedroom, and squabble until they have no choice but to divide their room in half. Only one girl has access to the bedroom door. The other has the closet, which turns out to be an elevator. Suddenly, I was […]
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Jenny Diski: 1947-2016
Jenny Diski died this morning at the age of 68. Here are nine stories celebrating Diski and her work.
