Essays

Essays

Lessons of the Line

Charles Simic and me
Dana Levin
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Ucky Art

Judith Scott, Eva Hesse, and the visceral power of "texxture"
Lauren Elkin
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Unfathomable Life

As a philosopher, I thought I understood risk. Then I tried to get pregnant.
Anna Hartford
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Spiritualism’s Shadows

On COVID-19 and false consolation
Alicia Puglionesi
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Heat Maps

Desire in the dark
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Objects of Desire

Jars with Well-Fitting Lids

Seeing loss more clearly
Catherine Lacey

Browse

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Traffic in smog
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Driving Us to Despair

Soul-killing and racist, the American commute is deeply wrong
Jess Row
April 1, 2020
Cityscape
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Copying & Lying

From For Now
Eileen Myles
April 1, 2020
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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Is This Tyranny?

How losing the right to vote changed my understanding of America
Feisal G. Mohamed
April 1, 2020
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.
Pandemic Files

Medicine’s Innovation Problem

The novel coronavirus exposes health care’s key weakness
Rena Xu
March 30, 2020
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.
Pandemic Files

The Law of Salus Populi

Epidemics and the law
John Fabian Witt
March 30, 2020
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.
Pandemic Files

The Lice

Vulnerability, contagion, and children
Miranda Featherstone
March 30, 2020
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.
Pandemic Files

Cannon Fodder

A doctor on the front lines
Laura Kolbe
March 27, 2020
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.
Pandemic Files

There’s a Sickness Outside

A doctor reflects on how dread and anxiety can become their own pandemic
Nitin Ahuja
March 27, 2020
Fine art of a woman bathing
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A Common Seagull

On making art and mourning
Sheila Heti
January 1, 2020
Abstract automaton
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Broken Doll

A daughter’s suicide in another country
Carlos Manuel Álvarez
and
Rahul Bery
January 1, 2020