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Our Most-Read Prose of 2022

Essays

Against the Stream

The forgotten pleasures of analog media
Jason Guriel
Poetry

I Am Still

Jorie Graham
From the Archives

How Should One Read a Book?

Read as if one were writing it
Virginia Woolf
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Our Most-Read Archival Pieces of 2022

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Our Most-Read Poems of 2022

The Waste Land at 100

Essays

Eliot Among the Ruins

The Waste Land remains prophetic, but what did it foretell?
Langdon Hammer
From the Archives

The First Eighteen Lines of The Waste Land

Anthony Hecht
From the Archives

T.S. Eliot's "Different Voices"

Amy Clampitt

No use wallowing over what could have been. This is the movie we get, and boy is it boring, but not in a way that leaves room for insight.

Lauren Michele Jackson On Emancipation

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Windham-Campbell Prizes Issue

Poem of the Week

Prairie School

Janice N. Harrington
Essay

Tender Light

The bond between photography and narrative
Emmanuel Iduma
Essays

Case Studies

A critic tracks herself
Margo Jefferson
Essays

The Path to "River See"

How improvisation and ancestry shape a playwright's work
Sharon Bridgforth
Essays

The Rest of the Story

Remembering childhood
Carolyn Forché
Essays

A Faceless Compass

Johannesburg’s haunted streets
Ivan Vladislavić
Fiction

Jana Dives

Tsitsi Dangarembga
Poetry

Threnody

Lorna Goodison
Poetry

The Flood

Cathy Park Hong
Poetry

After the Biopsy

Kwame Dawes
Essays

Reclaiming Tituba

The real story behind Arthur Miller's character
Winsome Pinnock

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Poetry

The Flight

John Jeremiah Sullivan
Poetry

Watershed

Zaffar Kunial
Essays

Remembering Benares

The city that inspired The Romantics
Pankaj Mishra
Fiction

The Postman

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
Poetry

The Toll

John Jeremiah Sullivan
Poetry

Translation

Carolyn Forché
Essays

Bottle Torches

A fantasia on Nari Ward
Ishion Hutchinson
Poetry

O’er

Zaffar Kunial
Poetry

On Hearing News of Another Shot Black Man

Kwame Dawes
Poetry

The Lawn

Wong May
Poem of the Week

Flies

Maureen N. McLane
Poetry

Remembering the World

Wong May
Poetry

Chickens

Wong May
Poem of the Week

Sean

Leslie Sainz
Fiction

The Front House

Cord Jefferson
Essays

A Glass Essay

Reading Anne Carson post-breakup
Sarah Chihaya
Essays

For Argument's Sake

In praise of high school debate
Becca Rothfeld

From the Archives

From the Archives

How Should One Read a Book?

Read as if one were writing it
Virginia Woolf
A painting of a woman reading at a table.
Jan Brandes, Ananas, 1785. Courtesy Rijksmuseum, Amserdam.
Poetry

Sunrise

Louise Glück
From the Archives

For S., at the Boat Pond

Jean Valentine