Essays

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The Shapes of Grief

Witnessing the unbearable
Christina Sharpe
The Moment

Palestinian Solidarity, Then and Now

The power of encampment as a form of protest
Feisal G. Mohamed
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Louise Glück’s Late Style

The fabular turn in the poet’s last three books
Teju Cole
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Jean Stein’s Rolodex

The legendary editor’s social genius
Benjamin Anastas
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The Path to Playwright

Discovering my literary hero in an unlikely place
Sonya Kelly
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The Frictions of Interracial Love

How one fundamental difference can color every aspect of marriage
Anne Anlin Cheng

Browse

Essays

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The “Sausage Vat Murder,” 1897

Notes on a killing
Harold Schechter
February 18, 2019
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Philip Roth, Landlord

A literary rentier
Terena Elizabeth Bell
February 4, 2019
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What Is An Emergency?

On the southern border
Feisal G. Mohamed
January 14, 2019
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Natural and Spiritual Freedom

Martin Hägglund
January 1, 2019
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Prison Term

Peter Brooks
January 1, 2019
Early 20th-c painting of naked white person of uncertain gender with mid-length hair on a swing in front of a castle/clouds
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Still, Image

Excerpts from In Remembrance of Things Past
Gerard Malanga
January 1, 2019
Painting showing a man and woman in a field
Criticism

The Angelus

Nan Z. Da
January 1, 2019
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What You Have Heard Is True

Remembering the fight for Salvadoran freedom
Carolyn Forché
January 1, 2019
Close-up of a dahlia
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Esmeralda

A poem and a flower
Melissa Hunter Gurney
December 24, 2018
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The Old Place

Place and technology
Anna Lewis
December 17, 2018