Essays

Lorraine Hansberry’s Queer Archive

The playwright’s lesbian fiction has gone largely unpublished. But she wanted you to read it.
Alec Pollak

Notes on Affirmation

SFFA v. Harvard and the quest for acceptance
Thomas Dai

This Part of Our Lives Is Over

Sending my daughter to Japan
Emily Bernard

New York Anabasis

In praise of the return to the surface
Rachel Eisendrath

Unfathomable Life

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

James Baldwin in Turkey

How Istanbul changed his career—and his life
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

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Essays

A detail of a screaming face

Sensitivity/Enlightenment

A distinction
Feisal G. Mohamed
June 5, 2018
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The Trunk Murders, 1931

Notes on a killing
Harold Schechter
May 27, 2018
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Religion/Fundamentalism

A distinction
Feisal G. Mohamed
May 21, 2018
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The Kidnapping of Little Charley Ross, 1874

Notes on a killing
Harold Schechter
May 14, 2018
Flemish painting of people paying taxes

Deep Politics, Shallow Politics

Feisal G. Mohamed
May 10, 2018
A typewriter. https://www.flickr.com/photos/22017189@N00/2621358221

100 Things About Writing a Novel

What to do—and when to do it
Alexander Chee
April 1, 2018
A still of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts in "The Andy Griffith Show."

Mayberry, USA

Visiting the inspiration for this quintessential American town.
Yunte Huang
April 1, 2018
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My Fountain Pen

J. D. McClatchy
April 1, 2018
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Reading

J. D. McClatchy
April 1, 2018
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Remembering a Memoir

An afterword to a new edition of French Lessons
Alice Kaplan
April 1, 2018