As a kid I loved Richard Scarry’s books. As an adult I loved (and love) Chris Ware’s graphic novels. As a parent I loved reading Scarry’s books, again, with my son. So of course this essay from Ware, commemorating the 50th anniversary edition of Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Thing … | Continue reading
What does the state of online shaming reveal about our democracy? | Continue reading
An essay about collecting post-mortem photographs––and grieving––in the Thanatos Archive. | Continue reading
An essay by Vivian Gornick: "I once wrote a book about the great nineteenth-century suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. I did that because I’d become embroiled in an argument over whether the women’s movement could produce literature as well as testimony..." | Continue reading
Ratik Asokan on the Brazilian novelist Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis and "The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas." | Continue reading
An essay by Jean Garnett: "Recently, I walked into a small grocery store near my house and the owner, a shy but sociable man, looked up at me and said, 'Are you you, or the other one?'" | Continue reading