Sonya Massey should be alive today.

“This piece was never meant to be about Munro. It was meant to be about 'Liars' and women who are erased by men—as was the fate of the fictionalized Sofya Kovalevskaya and the silenced Andrea Skinner.” Jenessa Abrams reviews Sarah Manguso’s “Liars." lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-a…

“When a woman loves a man with the whole of her self, there is no self left for her. Nor—as we’ve been reminded—is there any left for her child.” Jenessa Abrams on Sarah Manguso's "Liars" in the wake of Andrea Skinner's essay on Alice Munro. lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-a…

NBCC Emerging Critics Fellow Jenessa Abrams reviewed Sarah Manguso’s "Liars" for Los Angeles Review of Books: buff.ly/4djORmP

"How do we stand on the edge of a cliff, watching the ground under strangers’ feet disintegrate while the dirt beneath us stays firm?" - Jenessa Abrams in... lareviewofbooks.org/article/standi… via @lareviewofbooks

I was bouncing my baby when I saw the VP pick and shrieked with joy, then he shrieked with joy, and we both started giggling uncontrollably—me imagining the future this presidency could bring, him being blissfully unaware of the alternative which is what I want for all children

thank you, pasta, for being pasta

Just burst into tears listening to the passion in Harris' voice speaking about the violence of abortion bans affecting the health and safety of pregnant people experiencing miscarriages in a US presidential debate

Amber Nicole Thurman was killed by Georgia's abortion ban. She died in a hospital, surrounded by medical providers who could have saved her life. This is what abortion bans do. propublica.org/article/georgi…

We're starting to close out 2024, and as we look ahead to 2025, we have at least one big assignment remaining: to meet a generous matching grant challenge made by an anonymous donor by December 31. Help us get there by donating today! lareviewofbooks.org/donate?utm_sou…

Desire, strangers, jury duty—you'll find all of these in @jenessaabrams' electrifying #lettertoastranger from our anthology with Algonquin Books. This volume features essays by many of our era's most brilliant writers and makes a beautiful gift: bit.ly/3AFJIYm

This means a stupid lot to me during my first year of motherhood. Thank you so much for reading. Writing this piece helped save me. Los Angeles Review of Books lareviewofbooks.org/article/standi…

"This isn't the child's story: it is the mother's." Jenessa Abrams considers motherhood and postpartum healthcare in in review of Shayne Terry's "Leave: A Postpartum Account." lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-body…

I finished writing this for Los Angeles Review of Books on the eve of my child’s first birthday. Marking the end of my first postpartum year with Shayne Terry’s Leave, a book about pain, intergenerational trauma, & motherhood. Thanks forever to ellie eberlee lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-body…

"Her son's presence doesn't heal her. It can't." Jenessa Abrams reviews Shayne Terry's novel on motherhood and postpartum care, "Leave: A Postpartum Account." lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-body…

First up, we're revisiting Jenessa Abrams’s review of Miranda July’s "All Fours": "Two identities. A person or a wife. An artist or a mother. A sexual object or an invisible body." lareviewofbooks.org/article/standi…

“There is no redemption arc in ‘Things in Nature Merely Grow,’ no hero’s journey, no arrival at a deeper meaning of life after the compounding tragedies of Vincent and James’s suicides.” Jenessa Abrams reviews Yiyun Li’s "Things in Nature Merely Grow." lareviewofbooks.org/article/childr…

"She uses language to reconstruct thought, astonishing complexity of her son’s mind—all the while knowing that it will be merely that: a reconstruction," writes Jenessa Abrams in her review of Yiyun Li’s "Things in Nature Merely Grow." lareviewofbooks.org/article/childr…