Since 2009, when Speaking in Tongues was first published, I’ve read it probably about 20 times. Zadie Smith’s essays […]
Category Archive: Reviews
In my mind Susan Orlean and Malcolm Gladwell are the power couple of narrative nonfiction. I am not […]
On Monday 24 June, the Manchester Waterstones hosted one of my absolutely heroes: David Sedaris. In fact, Sedaris […]
Cynthia Ozick’s A Drugstore in Winter Eudora Welty’s A Sweet Devouring I didn’t intend to review two essays for […]
The Considering series is a place to focus on one particularly amazing essay or short piece of non-fiction. If you’d […]
When considering the best essayists from across the Atlantic, a number of names come to mind. David Sedaris […]
My wife has been ill. This essay was supposed to be finished days ago but my wife has […]
This week, we’re launching the Considering series, a place to focus on one particularly amazing essay or short […]
This post was submitted by Dan Toller, of the excellent The Electric Typewriter archive. Thanks, Dan! I saw Fear […]
At the tender age of 22, Joan Didion won a Vogue essay contest. It was 1956, decades before […]