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Essays

When Does a Divorce Begin?

Most people think of it as failure. For me it was an achievement.
Anahid Nersessian
Film

Terrence Malick’s Disciples

Why the auteur is the most influential director in Hollywood
Bilge Ebiri
Objects of Desire

Loveseat

I threw it away. Then I wanted it back.
Helen Phillips
Sepia toned photograph showing painter Joan Mitchell behind a canvas in her studio
Essays

The Unfolding of Time in Paint

My encounters with Joan Mitchell's panels
Rachel Cohen
Dan Fox as a child with his nain, or grandmother, in the chicken-filled yard of Siambr Wen, near Llanrwst, North Wales, UK
Essays

What Happened When I Began to Speak Welsh

By learning my family's language, I hoped to join their conversation.
Dan Fox
Folio

The Analytic Lyric

Nine poets in conversation with psychoanalysis
Black-and-white illustration of a therapy couch
Folio

Middle Vision

Wendy Lotterman
Folio

Parents

D. A. Fisher
Folio

Sleep Training

Jay Deshpande
Folio

The Plumber

Kathryn Maris

An Annie Ernaux essay, only in print

Our Summer 2026 issue includes an essay by Annie Ernaux, available only to print subscribers. Subscribe by May 11.
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Books

Searching for Seamus Heaney

What I found when I resolved to read him
Elisa Gonzalez
Seamus Heaney surrounded by books at London’s Royal Society of Literature in March 1995
Folio

Memoir

Emily Hoffman
Folio

House

Emily Hoffman

From the Archives

From the Archives

Station Island

Seamus Heaney
From the Archives

A Courier for Jacques Lacan

The psychoanalyst invited me for lunch at his Parisian apartment—and drew me into his orbit
Eileen Simpson
From the Archives

The First Psychoanalyst

Erik H. Erikson

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Interviews

Robert Glück

The writer remembers an era of sexual freedom and mourns literary lives cut short
Samuel Ernest