These days, it seems like everyone has an opinion on everything. But what makes an opinion worth considering? Writer Roxane Gay has an idea. ROXANE GAY: Is the opinion well-articulated? Is the ...
“If I have any gift at all,” Zadie Smith admits in one of the essays in Feel Free, “it’s for dialogue—that trick of breathing what-looks-like-life into a collection of written sentences.” Smith does ...
Essay collections appear infrequently on the lists of most popular nonfiction — memoirs and historical narratives dominate conversations about the genre. Those forms of nonfiction are wonderful in ...
Famed for her fearless literary takedowns, Lauren Oyler adopts a softer tone in the new essay collection “No Judgment.” Credit...Miguel Porlan Supported by By Erin Somers Erin Somers is a reporter for ...
Julian Novitz has contributed seven essays to the Sydney Review of Books between 2013-2022. Critic Swallows Book collects 22 diverse essays from the Sydney Review of Books (SRB) to celebrate its ...