Nonfiction

The Shapes of Grief

Witnessing the unbearable

Christina Sharpe

Writing in Pictures

Richard Scarry and the art of children’s literature

Chris Ware

Is Blasphemy Illiberal?

Salman Rushdie’s thoroughly modern controversies

Len Gutkin

How Mike Kelley Became Himself

The artist’s search for subcultural America

Jonathan Griffin

Objects of Desire

Richard Pryor

A fiction

Hilton Als

The Path to Playwright

Discovering my literary hero in an unlikely place

Sonya Kelly

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Nonfiction

The Saunterers’ Club

In pursuit of a more wayward Thoreau

Caleb Smith

May 23, 2023

The Winter Zoo

Visiting animals when most humans stay away

Kate Zambreno

May 8, 2023

Monstrous Hybrids and the Conjuring of Legacy

A visit to a namesake scrapyard changes a novelist's sense of inheritance

Idra Novey

April 5, 2023

Cancel Culture and Other Myths

Anti-fandom as heartbreak

Kathryn Lofton

March 27, 2023

Nothing Is a Memory

Remembering Bernadette Mayer

Daniel Poppick

March 27, 2023

Ode to Babel

The ecstasy of Michael K. Williams

Roger Reeves

March 27, 2023

The Journalist and the Photographer

Janet Malcolm’s Still Pictures

Brian Dillon

March 27, 2023

The Renegade Poetic Fortune-Telling Machine

On Joel Dias-Porter

Terrance Hayes

March 27, 2023

Throwing Punches in a Dive Bar

Three years into the pandemic, what does care look like?

Jordan Kisner

March 27, 2023

You Were the Bird

Petite Maman and the axis between mother and daughter

Georgia Cloepfil

March 27, 2023

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