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Lights, Camera, Essay: A Review of David Lazar’s “Celeste Holm Syndrome”
What does it mean to be a cinephile when movie theaters are closed? How can celebrities practice their celebrity as public space continues to change? For David Lazar, the answers to these questions lie...
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Prepared to Be Unpopular: A Review of Arundhati Roy’s “Azadi”
Arundhati Roy is polarizing, as any person speaking truth to power, is. The author of the Booker Prize-winning “The God of Small Things,” “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness,” the essay collection “My...
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Different Kinds of Love: An Interview with Michele Morano
As a follow-up to her critically-praised travel memoir "Travel Lessons," DePaul professor Michele Morano shares "Like Love," a memoir of interconnected essays that grapple with seeking out, and...
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Lending Poetry to Headlines: A Review of “I’m Gonna Say It Now: The Writings...
Ochs’ charm and gift were his simplicity and moral directness…
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A Mango Lover: Negesti Kaudo Talks About Crafting Her “Ripe” Essay Collection
Kaudo digs into the heartmeat of what her identities mean in these essays that address childhood, race, gender, body positivity, becoming an artist without a safety net of wealth in her debut collection.
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Unusual Fascinations: A Review of “Quiet Places: Collected Essays” by Peter...
In the essay that lends the book its title, Handke builds and extracts meaning from the humble public commode.
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Nietzsche for Nerds: A Review of “In Emergency, Break Glass” by Nate Anderson
Anderson wonders if our electronic servants have become our masters, draining some subtle but vital quality from our experience of life.
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It’s a Gass Gass Gass: On “On Being Blue”
“Blue pencils, blue noses, blue movies, laws, blue legs and stockings, the language of birds, and bees, and flowers as sung by longshoremen.”
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Live Like a Poet: A Review of Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song
The ingenious sense of wordplay that characterizes the Minnesota bard’s best work as a songwriter is everywhere in evidence in this substantial, but wild 334-page work of creative non-fiction.
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Unfailing Empathy: A Review of A Left-Handed Woman by Judith Thurman
In Thurman’s essays, each of her subjects could be described as left-handed, at least in a figurative sense. Of the thirty-nine essays that make up the collection, the vast majority concern women.
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