Nonfiction

The Body I Couldn't Abstract

Motherhood reshaped how I see shame, art, and the female body
Megan O’Grady

A Night’s Sleep

An insomniac’s lifelong pursuit
Vincenzo Latronico

Dogsbody

Dale Peck

An Unsettling Civil War Photograph

An image from the Battle of the Wilderness
Rachel Eisendrath

Night Knowledge

What I learned at the club
Aria Aber

Quiver and Fixity

What I found returning to Thomas Hardy in midlife
Jhumpa Lahiri

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A Reviewer’s Life

The material constraints of writing criticism today
Christine Smallwood
June 10, 2024

Alice Notley’s Disobedience

The shape-shifting voice that changed American poetry
Tausif Noor
June 10, 2024

Critical Navel-Gazing

If criticism is in crisis, it’s not the critic’s problem
Namwali Serpell
June 10, 2024

I, Too, Am John Clare

Becoming a different kind of postcolonial writer
Amit Chaudhuri
June 10, 2024

Jean Stein’s Rolodex

The legendary editor’s social genius
Benjamin Anastas
June 10, 2024

Louise Glück’s Late Style

The fabular turn in the poet’s last three books
Teju Cole
June 10, 2024

Poetically Speaking

A new book makes the case for bewilderment as a critical virtue
Brian Dillon
June 10, 2024

Rembrandt’s Reclining Female Nude

What the print reveals about a body at rest
Rachel Eisendrath
June 10, 2024

Stealing the Show

Why conservatives killed America’s federally funded theater
Charlie Tyson
June 10, 2024

Teju Cole

An Introduction to the 2024 Finzi-Contini Lecture
Meghan O’Rourke
June 10, 2024