A Slave to the Essayistic Impulse: An Interview with Angela Morales
he job of the essayist, like any storyteller,” writes Angela Morales in the introduction to her debut essay collection The Girls in My Town,…
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Women We Read This Week
Janet Malcolm’s “Iphigenia in Forest Hills” in The New Yorker In the erratic throes of new motherhood, I’ve been doing a lot of baby…
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Inversion
My father carved for my mother. He turned blocks of wood into mini-carousel horses. These horses were the most delicate things I’d ever seen a man make…
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Our Own Ocean
During the longer days of our cross-country road trip I slept in the car in the early afternoon, dozing in the passenger seat as Cam’s Toyota…
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Women We Read This Week
Karen Shepard’s “Dragon Ladies” in The Millions She was Eurasian; I’m Eurasian. She was a writer; I’m a writer. In one of her memoirs,…
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