Nonfiction

Essays

Lessons of the Line

Charles Simic and me
Dana Levin
Books

Revisiting Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance

The novel that introduced a new post-Stonewall gay sensibility
Garth Greenwell
Television

Streaming the Polycrisis

Why have TV miniseries about catastrophe become all the rage?
Adam Fales
Essays

Ucky Art

Judith Scott, Eva Hesse, and the visceral power of "texxture"
Lauren Elkin
Essays

Heat Maps

Desire in the dark
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Books

Gender Wars

Two scholars excavate the origins of today’s trans backlash
Paisley Currah

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Nonfiction

PenErik, Doublement, 2014, via Creative Commons
Essays

We Are Our Choices

The consequences of being severed from your True Self
Nuar Alsadir
July 25, 2022
Essays

The Feminism of Elizabeth Hardwick

What happens when care becomes work?
Apoorva Tadepalli
July 18, 2022
Essays

Akron State of Mind

Did I betray my friends by moving to the suburbs?
William Evans
July 11, 2022
Folio

Black Hauntology: An Introduction

The ghosts that endure
Phillip B. Williams
July 11, 2022
Essays

The Ghost of Henry Dumas

Since his mysterious death, the poet's spirit has haunted my family
Treasure Shields Redmond
July 11, 2022
Essays

The Abortion Stories We Tell

Do we need to be more radically honest?
Maggie Doherty
June 24, 2022
Essays

A Glass Essay

Reading Anne Carson post-breakup
Sarah Chihaya
June 1, 2022
Essays

Alice and Jean

Is it possible to be an ethical consumer?
Jennifer Stock
June 1, 2022
Essays

Camera Mortis

How photographs of the dead helped me mourn
Lili Hamlyn
June 1, 2022
Essays

For Argument's Sake

In praise of high school debate
Becca Rothfeld
June 1, 2022