Essays

The Shapes of Grief

Witnessing the unbearable
Christina Sharpe

Palestinian Solidarity, Then and Now

The power of encampment as a form of protest
Feisal G. Mohamed

Louise Glück’s Late Style

The fabular turn in the poet’s last three books
Teju Cole

Jean Stein’s Rolodex

The legendary editor’s social genius
Benjamin Anastas

The Path to Playwright

Discovering my literary hero in an unlikely place
Sonya Kelly

The Frictions of Interracial Love

How one fundamental difference can color every aspect of marriage
Anne Anlin Cheng

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Essays

Are Twins Kinda Gay?

What Dead Ringers reveals about pop culture's latest obsession
Helena de Bres
October 9, 2023

10 Ways Ms., Sassy, and Jezebel Changed Your Life!

How contradiction drove fifty years of feminist media
Maggie Doherty
September 18, 2023

How Emily Wilson Reimagined Homer

Her boldly innovative translation of the Iliad is an epic for our time
Emily Greenwood
September 18, 2023

In the Shallows

Why do public intellectuals condescend to their readers?
Becca Rothfeld
September 18, 2023

Lorraine Hansberry’s Queer Archive

The playwright’s lesbian fiction has gone largely unpublished. But she wanted you to read it.
Alec Pollak
September 18, 2023

The Choice Plot

Why are so many new novels obsessed with whether–and how–to have children?
Sanjena Sathian
September 18, 2023

Unfathomable Life

As a philosopher, I thought I understood risk. Then I tried to get pregnant.
Anna Hartford
September 18, 2023

Service or Servitude?

The Bear and The Menu give us very different views of capitalism
Daniel W. Drezner
September 12, 2023

Abstraction and Nonsense

The real in fiction
Percival Everett
June 12, 2023

Ahead of Time

On poetry and mourning
Kamran Javadizadeh
June 12, 2023