Eternal Return in “Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen”

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Gianni Washington

Suzanne Scanlon’s Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen excavates some of her most formative memories for clues to her evolving selfhood.…

The Specter of Something More in “Ghost Station”

The eeriness and isolation of uncolonized, hostile worlds make S.A. Barnes’s sophomore novel, Ghost Station, feel claustrophobic. Yet it also…

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Mazes of Memory in “The Minotaur at Calle Lanza” by Zito Madu

In fall 2020, Zito Madu moved to Venice for work. He nervously left his parents back at their home in…

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Intimate Orchestrations: On Amor Towles’s “Table for Two”

The main character of Amor Towles’s debut, Rules of Civility, slips into a movie theater in the middle of a…

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Accessing the Strangeness: An Interview with Clare Beams about “The Garden”

Clare Beams is a writer’s writer. Whenever I talk with fellow writers about work we admire, the fact of Clare’s…

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That Tender Feeling: A Conversation with Marissa Higgins on “A Good Happy Girl”

It was the cover of Marissa Higgins’ debut novel A Good Happy Girl that initially caught my eye: a young…

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Letting It Rip in “Like Love: Essays and Conversations”

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“Everywhere I go, nature is where I’m finding my grounding”: An Interview with Ada Limón

Is it possible to be star-struck after you’ve already met the person? Yes. Yes, it is. I met Ada Limón…

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The Purpose of Memory: A Conversation with Jonathan Corcoran

Jonathan Corcoran has been writing about West Virginia and Appalachia since before I met him. We were both attending graduation…

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The Purpose of Memory: A Conversation with Jonathan Corcoran

Jonathan Corcoran has been writing about West Virginia and Appalachia since before I met him. We were both attending graduation…

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