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

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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The Powers of the President

William Howard Taft
October 1, 1914