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Memory Lane
Anson Ching on Mo Yan's ability to tell stories as if they were written memories. Read more
Shtisel
Patty Osborne on Shtisel—an Israeli TV series about an ultra-religious Jewish family in Jerusalem. Read more
Murder by Milkshake
Debby Reis on Canadian institutions, 1960s counterculture and milkshake. Read more
Suffer the Children
Immigration questions 9 and 10: How do you like where you’re living now? Are you happy here? Read more
Japanese Beatniks and Revised Boy Scouts
Michael Hayward on a selection of work from the writing collective known as "the Beats" Read more
Queerspawn
Patty Osborne on twenty-four essays of "rants and reflections on growing up with LGBTQ+ parents." Read more
Brion Gysin: Honorary Canadian
Michael Hayward on a collection of conversations with Brion Gysin—writer and counterculture legend. Read more
What They Say
Mary Schendlinger on Natalia Ginzburg's narrative of her family during the rise of Hitler and Mussolini. Read more
Karl Ove Knausgaard: A tale of the tape
The final volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle allows us to compare Karl Ove’s literary edifice with others of similar ilk—and bulk. Read more
Pencil Pushers
Kris Rothstein on the current state of employment in Bullshit Jobs and Temp. Read more
Mr. Dalloway
Jonathan Heggen on Virgina Woolf's appearance on 4chan's top 100 books of all time. Read more
Cast Out of Eden
Michael Hayward on Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions by Alberto Manguel. Read more
