Essays
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
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
Creativity, Poetic Language, and the Computer
What's distinctly human about writing a poem?
Marie Borroff
June 1, 1971
