‘Things in Nature Merely Grow’ Tackles Death Differently
Yiyun Li’s beautiful and complex autobiography Things in Nature Merely Grow is not about death or loss; it is about who we become when we lose.
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David Lazar’s ‘Celeste Holm Syndrome’ Appreciates Hollywood’s Unsung Character Actors
David Lazar's Celeste Holm Syndrome documents how character actor work is about scene-defining, not scene-stealing.
Sloane Crosley’s ‘Look Alive Out There’ Suffers from Short-Sightedness
Reading Sloane Crosley's smaller sketches -- hardly "essays" -- are the equivalent of starting a car in the driveway and never taking it out for a ride.
‘Apocalypse, Darling’ Is a Deceptively Difficult Text That Deserves Deep Consideration
Sparked by T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Borich's work is a genre-crossing meditation on bodies of land, humans, and their sometimes tempestuous connections.