Kerri Arsenault is a book critic, teacher, associate of the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, and the author of Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains, which won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists and the Maine Literary Award for nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Freeman’s, the Boston Globe, Down East, the Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, and the Washington Post.
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Recommended Reading: Winter 2021
Art & Craft

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I Live a Life Like Yours Jan Grue (Translated by B. L. Crook) FSG Originals Norwegian writer and academic Jan Grue excavates “what lies beneath” the human body when the body Continue reading
Art & Craft

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Autumn 2021
People from My Neighborhood Hiromi Kawakami Soft Skull Press I LOVE MINIATURES, the way big ideas are shrunk to digestible bits and dollhouse-size designs, where everything is there—just smaller. In Continue reading
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Recommended Reading: Autumn 2021
Art & Craft

Recommended Reading
Gordo by Jaime Cortez Black Cat Every sentence in this collection balances gymnastically, expertly on the thin blade of hilarity and mourning, happiness and despair. Cortez’s recurring character, Gordo, Continue reading
Interview

Storyteller at the Fire
Jonathan Lethem is the author of eleven novels, five short story collections, and several nonfiction books, for which he has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. Continue reading
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Nine Questions for the Author: Leonardo Trasande, Author of Sicker, Fatter, Poorer
Here’s a terrifying fact: conservative estimates say that household hormone-disrupting chemicals are costing the US $340 billion annually in healthcare costs. This statistic received the attention of Leonardo Trasande, which led Continue reading