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Candace Jane Opper’s obsessive remembrance of a teen crush who died by suicide
... had killed himself steamed with novelty for a while, moving from mouths to ears over lunch or sandwiched between faded green seats on a school bus, lingering finally inside loud whispers in the...
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Artful Volumes
... black wax cloth, not (as legend holds) because the latter was cheap and available--cheaper materials abounded--but because he knew how to draw upon its depths to inflect his emerald-green hillsides...
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A Racist Commonwealth
... down the For Colored and For Whites signs, and we rode right through.” Kristen Green confirms this anecdote in her new book, Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County, but she otherwise...
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The Lost Girls
... of twentieth-century Anglophone culture as her sisters, including Jean Rhys and Sylvia Plath (Zambreno’s 2011 novel, Green Girl, paid direct homage to Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight and Plath’s The...
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Lea Carpenter's "Eleven Days"
... Eric Greitens’s The Warrior's Heart: Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage, among others, including what might be the most provocative SEAL memoir for some time, Kristen Beck’s Warrior Princess...