Category: Books

A Life Guided by the Arts

could tell it was getting bad when tech guys started talking about their “stacks.” They had sleep stacks, workout stacks, nutrition stacks, self-improvement stacks . . . if you could load up a bunch of helpful tasks or goals in a way that felt connecte…

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A Zone of Indistinction

ife can feel overwhelming when you’re a teenager. Your physique is changing dramatically while at the same time your emotions are being bombarded by surging hormones and your brain is undergoing its last big developmental phase, a combination that can …

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Nightmares of the Voiceless

ónica Ojeda writes like the sentences are escaping from the fractured earth after disaster, as if her narrative is informed by an intertwined set of truths in logical relation that selectively burst forth into consciousness, as if the fragile surface o…

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Spreading the Good News of Nancy Lemann

ancy Lemann is the author of five novels and one work of nonfiction, the glorious and strange Ritz of the Bayou (1987). New Orleans features prominently in her work, as do the rituals of upper-class White Southern society, drinking, and affection for t…

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