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Biography

The Serene Steamroller

by Joy Williams,

On Kafka

Women’s Troubles

by Abby Norman,

By Abby Norman, from Ask Me About My Uterus, which was published last month by Nation Books. Norman is an editor at Futurism, a science and technology website.

The Pain Refugees

by Brian Goldstone,

The forgotten victims of America’s opioid crisis

Village People

by Terry Southern,

By Terry Southern (1924–95), from an unpublished manuscript written in 1952. It is included in Making It Hot for Them, a collection of his writings edited by Nile Southern that…

Out of Time

by Sallie Tisdale,

The un-becoming of self

Silent Treatment

by Amia Srinivasan,

The troubling response to a memoir of incest

Before I Sleep

by Henry Marsh,

By Henry Marsh, from Admissions, a memoir about his life as a neurosurgeon. The book was published in October by St. Martin’s Press. Marsh is the author of Do No Harm.

Framing The Shadows

by Vince Passaro,

The luminary vision of W. Eugene Smith

Who’s Laughing Now?

by Tom Bissell,

The tragicomedy of Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live

Into the Wild

by James Marcus,

Henry David Thoreau as prophet, naturalist, and stealth comedian

All the Last Wars

by Charles Glass, Don McCullin,

Around the world with the Goya of conflict photography