Newsletter #411

"Secrets and desires are at the heart of our selfhood, and no one can be your best friend if you don’t let them see who you are." Girl's Girl so perfectly and evocatively captures the emotional highs... (Anika)

If you know that Harriet Clark is the daughter of Judy Clark, a former Weather Underground founder given a life sentence for her role in a murderous armored-car robbery, you might expect that her firs... (Tom)

Kanakia has quickly drawn many readers to her newsletter—me included—with two rare skills: an ability to consume vast quantities of literature (for a fascinating recent essay on New Yorker fiction she... (Tom)