Essays
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
The Body I Couldn't Abstract
Motherhood reshaped how I see shame, art, and the female body
Megan O’Grady
Browse
Essays
A Nurse Comes to Brooklyn
She wanted to do something for herself, so she traveled 1,200 miles to care for COVID-19 patients
Nell Freudenberger
June 30, 2020
Thucydides in Times of Trouble
Rereading the ancient historian after my father died
Emily Greenwood
June 24, 2020
The Jail Crisis
Riker's Island has been devastated by Covid-19, but getting out is just the beginning
Russell Morse
June 23, 2020
Reading the Decameron through the Lens of COVID-19
The fallacy of “literary distancing”
Millicent Marcus
June 22, 2020
Giving Up the Ghost
There are a million ways to teach a Black boy about death
Hafizah Geter
June 18, 2020
Coronavirus and the Danger of Disbelief
Why was it so hard even for doctors to see what was coming?
Randi Hutter Epstein
June 16, 2020
I Can’t Sleep
After days of witnessing racial violence, respite is no longer a given
Emily Bernard
June 15, 2020
