Essays

Essays

Night Knowledge

What I learned at the club
Aria Aber
A Closer Look

An Unsettling Civil War Photograph

An image from the Battle of the Wilderness
Rachel Eisendrath
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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
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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
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The Body I Couldn't Abstract

Motherhood reshaped how I see shame, art, and the female body
Megan O’Grady

Browse

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A photo of the author and her brother, with other children
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The Good Brother

On siblings
Mary Barnett
September 12, 2018
Fish nets hanging on a wall
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From The Piranhas: The Boy Bosses of Naples

An excerpt from the Italian
Roberto Saviano
and
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).
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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