Essays

Night Knowledge

What I learned at the club

Aria Aber

An Unsettling Civil War Photograph

An image from the Battle of the Wilderness

Rachel Eisendrath

Quiver and Fixity

What I found returning to Thomas Hardy in midlife

Jhumpa Lahiri

Objects of Desire

A Night’s Sleep

An insomniac’s lifelong pursuit

Vincenzo Latronico

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

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Essays

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Ode to my Father’s Boots

On aging

Cornelius Eady

February 28, 2019

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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

Still, Image

Excerpts from In Remembrance of Things Past

Gerard Malanga

January 1, 2019

Painting showing a man and woman in a field

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

Esmeralda

A poem and a flower

Melissa Hunter Gurney

December 24, 2018

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