Rachel Eisendrath

Rachel Eisendrath teaches Renaissance poetry and critical theory at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of Gallery of Clouds.
A Closer Look

An Unsettling Civil War Photograph

An image from the Battle of the Wilderness
Rachel Eisendrath
March 16, 2026
Art

A Miracle at the Met

Siena: The Rise of Painting brings together an astonishing group of artworks
Rachel Eisendrath
January 15, 2025
A Closer Look

Rembrandt’s Reclining Female Nude

What the print reveals about a body at rest
Rachel Eisendrath
June 10, 2024
Essays

New York Anabasis

In praise of the return to the surface
Rachel Eisendrath
June 12, 2023