January’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction
Featuring Edmund White’s Sex Memoir, the Rise of Spotify, and the End of the World
How Local and Federal Laws Disenfranchised a Generation of Black Homeowners
Bernadette Atuahene on the Lasting Material and Psychological Impact of Racist Post-War Housing Policies
What South Asia’s Literary Classics Reveal About Its Linguistic and Cultural Diversity
Ranjit Hoskote on the Interplay Between Written, Oral and Corporal Expression in Indian Literature
Susan Barker on Terror and the Power of Ambiguity
“Ambiguous signs in horror are so unnerving because it’s the stuff we encounter in our everyday lives.”
On Donald Trump’s Aborted Executive Order and the Future of Congressional Power
Aron Solomon Unpacks the Legal Ramifications of the Latest Presidential Whim
How Trump’s Illegal Administrative Coup Threatened Funding for Everything, Including Libraries.
“They are not afraid to threaten vast swathes of vulnerable Americans—the point is to be cruel and to punish.”
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“I’ve seen sex written about with passion and dispassion, but seldom in the same book, and never in the same sentence.”
As the World Burns, There’s Nothing Wrong With a Little Escapism
Maris Kreizman on Finding the Art to Free Her From Her Phone
What We Lost In the Fire: On the Stories We Tell To Fill Life’s Empty Spaces
For Lea Carpenter, “There is a third story, the one told in the second person. This is the story you tell yourself.”
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