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

The Path to Playwright

Discovering my literary hero in an unlikely place
Sonya Kelly

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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

A Moral Education

In praise of filth
Garth Greenwell
March 20, 2023

All at Once, the Multiverse Is Everywhere

Why today's movies, TV shows, and literature love branching timelines and many worlds
David M. de León
March 9, 2023