Essays

Essays

Lorraine Hansberry’s Queer Archive

The playwright’s lesbian fiction has gone largely unpublished.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

Notes on Affirmation

SFFA v. Harvard and the quest for acceptance
Thomas Dai
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This Part of Our Lives Is Over

Sending my daughter to Japan
Emily Bernard
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New York Anabasis

In praise of the return to the surface
Rachel Eisendrath
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Unfathomable Life

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

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

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Black and white photo of light coming through windows in the apse of San Vitale in Ravenna with mosaics. Courtesy N.P. Sullo.
Essays

Days of 1952

On the rapture of experiencing art in solitude
James Merrill
April 1, 1992
From the Archives

From My Cornell Notebooks

Charles Simic
April 1, 1992
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From the Archives

Short Talks

Anne Carson
July 1, 1991
From the Archives

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

James Merrill
December 1, 1989
From the Archives

The First Eighteen Lines of The Waste Land

Anthony Hecht
December 1, 1989
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From the Archives

A Legend in My Life

My encounters with the incomparable Greta Garbo
Vincent Price
July 1, 1988
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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.
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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