Essays

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Case Studies

A critic tracks herself
Margo Jefferson
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Theater of Shame

The rise of online humiliation
Charlie Tyson
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Tender Light

The bond between photography and narrative
Emmanuel Iduma
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Remembering Benares

The city that inspired The Romantics
Pankaj Mishra
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The Rest of the Story

Remembering childhood
Carolyn Forché
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The Path to "River See"

How improvisation and ancestry shape a playwright's work
Sharon Bridgforth

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From the Archives

Making Contact

Encounters with readers
Annie Dillard
July 1, 1988
From the Archives

Women's Rights: Unspeakable Issues in the Constitution

Nancy F. Cott
June 1, 1988
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From the Archives

Singing with the Fundamentalists

Annie Dillard
January 1, 1985
An abstract print by Jacob van Heemskerck.
Essays

Naming, Being, and Black Experience

Yale’s first Black professor on the presence or absence of names, their status and their scope.
Michael G. Cooke
December 1, 1977
Detail of a microchip
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Creativity, Poetic Language, and the Computer

What's distinctly human about writing a poem?
Marie Borroff
June 1, 1971
An old photograph of a churchyard cemetery. Courtesy The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
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A Journal of the Plague

The 1918 Influenza
Francis Russell
December 1, 1958
Blue stamps from WWII ration book
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Note on the Home Front

I shall never forget that first winter of gasoline rationing
Eve Riehle
September 1, 1945
A photograph of a London street during WWII.
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After a Visit to England

London during the Blitz
Thornton Wilder
September 1, 1941
Propaganda poster of Leon Trotsky
From the Archives

Hitler’s National Socialism

Leon Trotsky
December 1, 1933
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Essays

Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour

Vita Sackville-West
September 1, 1929