Sarah Rosenthal, Author at The Adroit Journal

Sarah Rosenthal

Sarah Rosenthal is a Nonfiction Writing MFA candidate at Columbia University, where she also teaches undergraduate writing. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in BITCH, GEN Mag, Gay Mag, Creative Nonfiction, LitHub, Electric Lit, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and elsewhere. She also publishes a semi-monthly Substack newsletter on anxiety and pop culture entitled Nervous Wreckage. You can find more of her work at www.sarahrosenthalwrites.com or on Twitter: @sarahmrosenthal.

A Review of Lina Meruane’s Nervous System, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell

I’ve always bristled at the idea that there are only a few real, original stories…

Hometown, Dispossessed: A Review of Kazim Ali’s Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water

Writing about the place where you grew up can be a fraught endeavor. Our hometowns…