Essays

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Night Knowledge

What I learned at the club
Aria Aber
A Closer Look

An Unsettling Civil War Photograph

An image from the Battle of the Wilderness
Rachel Eisendrath
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Quiver and Fixity

What I found returning to Thomas Hardy in midlife
Jhumpa Lahiri
Objects of Desire

A Night’s Sleep

An insomniac’s lifelong pursuit
Vincenzo Latronico
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Do You Actually Have to Finish That Novel?

A critic considers the strange moral pressure we feel to read to the very last page
Michel Chaouli
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The Body I Couldn't Abstract

Motherhood reshaped how I see shame, art, and the female body
Megan O’Grady

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Theater of Shame

The rise of online humiliation
Charlie Tyson
September 1, 2022
PenErik, Doublement, 2014, via Creative Commons
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We Are Our Choices

The consequences of being severed from your True Self
Nuar Alsadir
July 25, 2022
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The Feminism of Elizabeth Hardwick

What happens when care becomes work?
Apoorva Tadepalli
July 18, 2022
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Akron State of Mind

Did I betray my friends by moving to the suburbs?
William Evans
July 11, 2022
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The Ghost of Henry Dumas

Since his mysterious death, the poet's spirit has haunted my family
Treasure Shields Redmond
July 11, 2022
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The Abortion Stories We Tell

Do we need to be more radically honest?
Maggie Doherty
June 24, 2022
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A Glass Essay

Reading Anne Carson post-breakup
Sarah Chihaya
June 1, 2022
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Alice and Jean

Is it possible to be an ethical consumer?
Jennifer Stock
June 1, 2022
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Camera Mortis

How photographs of the dead helped me mourn
Lili Hamlyn
June 1, 2022
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For Argument's Sake

In praise of high school debate
Becca Rothfeld
June 1, 2022