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When Does a Divorce Begin?

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

Searching for Seamus Heaney

What I found when I resolved to read him
Elisa Gonzalez

The Unfolding of Time in Paint

My encounters with Joan Mitchell's panels
Rachel Cohen
Sepia toned photograph showing painter Joan Mitchell behind a canvas in her studio

Terrence Malick’s Disciples

Why the auteur is the most influential director in Hollywood
Bilge Ebiri
Dan Fox as a child with his nain, or grandmother, in the chicken-filled yard of Siambr Wen, near Llanrwst, North Wales, UK

What Happened When I Began to Speak Welsh

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

The temptation when writing about the end of a relationship, any relationship, is always to vilify or forgive, diss or accuse or self-congratulate. But I really think that’s a misapplication of literature as a medium.

Anahid Nersessian Behind the Essay

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The Analytic Lyric

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

Middle Vision

Wendy Lotterman


Parents

D. A. Fisher

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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Memoir

Emily Hoffman

House

Emily Hoffman