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Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
Rachel Cusk on Eschewing her ‘Cuskness’ For Her Alter-Ego in ‘Outline’ and ‘Transit’
Rachel Cusk talks to Heidi Julavits about the “trench” she digs between herself and representations of herself, in both memoir and “autofiction.”
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Read stories by Andrew Sullivan, James Fenton, Adrian Daub, Michelle Kirsch, and Maria Bustillos.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
On Barbs and Demogorgons: A Stranger Things Reading List
After the binge-watching comes the binge-reading.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Writing the Monsignor
Mary O’Connell recalls her college efforts to write about a scandalized priest from her youth.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Why Populism Will Not Make America Great: The Making of a Mexican-American Dream
Sarah Menkedick suggests that America has everything to lose if it can’t reject the resurgence of nativist (white) populism to embrace this generation of smart, ambitious, second-generation Mexican Americans.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
My Grandfather’s Fateful Goodbye, Reimagined
Karissa Chen tries to reconstruct the moment her grandfather, at 19, left Shanghai for Taiwan on a supposed vacation—a decision that would alter his life forever.
Posted inHistory, Story
Watching a Fall
The allure and shame of watching America’s last public hanging.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
On Barbs and Demogorgons: A Stranger Things Reading List
After the binge-watching comes the binge-reading.
