Cultural Historian JoAnn LoSavio (Washington State University) reviews the forthcoming book I Am Oum Ry: A Champion Kickboxer’s Story of Surviving the Cambodian Genocide and Discovering Peace with an eye… Read more “I Am Oum Ry” Strikes Hard →
Read an excerpt of Claire Phillips’s A Room With a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother and Schizophrenia on Joyland. The magazine’s selection documents Phillips’s experience as an undergraduate student… Read more Joyland Publishes an Excerpt of Claire Phillips’s “A Room With a Darker View” →
Linde Luijnenburg of the Dutch Review of Books recently reviewed the original Dutch publication of Peter Delpeut’s Jonas Mekas, Shiver of Memory, noting Delpeut’s nuanced take on first person accounts… Read more Dutch Review of Books: Jonas Mekas, Shiver of Memory “The Beginning of a Conversation” →
Vol. 1 Brooklyn published a powerful essay written by Claire Phillips, “The Stories That Save Us,” based on her memoir, A Room With a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother… Read more Vol. 1 Brooklyn publishes poignant Claire Phillips essay →
Running from December to February, The City of Paris Center in partnership with the Museum of Art and History of Judiasm (MAHJ), is devoting an exhibition to the photography of… Read more Adolfo Kaminsky exhibition at City Hall of Paris Center →
Holly Rudolph of the Los Angeles Review of Books recently interviewed Claire Phillip’s on her complex relationship with her mother and the process of writing her intimate memoir, A Room… Read more Los Angeles Review of Books interviews Claire Phillips →
Amelia Kennedy thoughtfully reviews Claire Phillips’s memoir, A Room with a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother and Schizophrenia on Write or Die Tribe. Kennedy notes the text is more… Read more Write or Die Tribe praises Claire Phillips’s “deeply moving” memoir →
Juliana Geran Pilon, a senior fellow at The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, published a joint review of the late Arkady Polishchuk’s two memoirs, Dancing on… Read more Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs features Dancing on Thin Ice →