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

Browse

Essays

Fish nets hanging on a wall

From The Piranhas: The Boy Bosses of Naples

An excerpt from the Italian

Roberto Saviano

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Antony Shugaar

August 29, 2018

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Instructive Formalities

The poetry of Laura Bush

Mary Barnett

August 13, 2018

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Hope

On sisterhood

Mary Barnett

July 30, 2018

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On This Day

The war and the memories

Mary Barnett

July 16, 2018

Illustration of Matterhorn (mountain).

A Mountaineer’s Imagination

Journeying up the Matterhorn

Veronica Tomasic

July 9, 2018

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Corporatism/Professionalism

An unnecessary distinction

Feisal G. Mohamed

July 3, 2018

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Bengali Baboo

Deborah Baker

July 1, 2018

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Great Aunt Dorothea Mendelssohn

or, Foam on the wave

Lily Tuck

July 1, 2018

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In the Tank

George Jackson and prison as a system of terror

Tom Sleigh

July 1, 2018

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Unliving Hands

Lyric Distance in Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth”

Adam Keller

July 1, 2018

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