Nonfiction

Essays

The Shapes of Grief

Witnessing the unbearable
Christina Sharpe
Books

Writing in Pictures

Richard Scarry and the art of children’s literature
Chris Ware
Books

Is Blasphemy Illiberal?

Salman Rushdie’s thoroughly modern controversies
Len Gutkin
Art

How Mike Kelley Became Himself

The artist’s search for subcultural America
Jonathan Griffin
Objects of Desire

Richard Pryor

A fiction
Hilton Als
Essays

The Path to Playwright

Discovering my literary hero in an unlikely place
Sonya Kelly

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Nonfiction

Books

Wong May's Poetry of Exile

In search of a language of unbelonging
Hao Guang Tse (谢皓光)
February 6, 2023
Tribute

Charles Simic

Remembering a great poet and friend
Meghan O’Rourke
January 13, 2023
Film

White Noise, New and Improved

How Noah Baumbach transformed a classic satire
Christine Smallwood
January 9, 2023
Annotating the Archives

Eliot Among the Ruins

The Waste Land remains prophetic, but what did it foretell?
Langdon Hammer
December 12, 2022
Film

On Emancipation

What Hollywood has done to a much-circulated image of American slavery
Lauren Michele Jackson
December 9, 2022
Essays

A Faceless Compass

Johannesburg’s haunted streets
Ivan Vladislavić
December 6, 2022
Essays

Bottle Torches

A fantasia on Nari Ward
Ishion Hutchinson
December 6, 2022
Essays

Case Studies

A critic tracks herself
Margo Jefferson
December 6, 2022
Essays

Reclaiming Tituba

The real story behind Arthur Miller's character
Winsome Pinnock
December 6, 2022
Essays

Remembering Benares

The city that inspired The Romantics
Pankaj Mishra
December 6, 2022