Essays

Lessons of the Line

Charles Simic and me

Dana Levin

Ucky Art

Judith Scott, Eva Hesse, and the visceral power of "texxture"

Lauren Elkin

Unfathomable Life

As a philosopher, I thought I understood risk. Then I tried to get pregnant.

Anna Hartford

Spiritualism’s Shadows

On COVID-19 and false consolation

Alicia Puglionesi

Heat Maps

Desire in the dark

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Objects of Desire

Jars with Well-Fitting Lids

Seeing loss more clearly

Catherine Lacey

Browse

Essays

Abstract automaton

Broken Doll

A daughter’s suicide in another country

Carlos Manuel Álvarez

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Rahul Bery

January 1, 2020

Author photo

Changing My Mind

On sources, revision, and order

Lydia Davis

January 1, 2020

A photo of the author's mother and brother in 1974

Ghosts in My Nursery

Mourning the brother I never knew

Miranda Featherstone

January 1, 2020

A blurred photo of lights

In Centennial

The only ones left alive

Cathy Park Hong

January 1, 2020

An old photo of baseball players

Loss

When yearning is a pleasure

Sarah Manguso

January 1, 2020

Portrait of the author's mother

Stereopticon

Twelve ways of looking at my mother

Emily Bernard

January 1, 2020

Portrait of J. D. McClatchy

Still to Love

For J. D. McClatchy

Langdon Hammer

January 1, 2020

Obscured female form with words

The Skin You’re In

On living in—and losing—a body

Molly McCully Brown

January 1, 2020

A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

Listening to the Provinces

A painter’s letters home

Shifra Sharlin

July 1, 2019

An image of an old coin.

The Virtues and Vices of Speech

On truthfulness, deception, flattery, and more

Giovanni Gioviano Pontano

and

G. W. Pigman III

July 1, 2019

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