Seeing I
/Why do we read personal essays? A new collection reminds us: to see not just the world but the writer looking at the world, and back at us.
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/Maggie Nelson’s gripping revisionist memoir of a murder could be considered anti-narrative non-fiction: it at once participates in storytelling and critiques it.
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/How do we become ourselves? For Vivian Gornick, wandering the city streets is one way to both ask and answer that question; for us, her book becomes a bracing guide to doing the same.
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