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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Nonfiction

Antique Medical Slides

Specimens of my past and future self
Leslie Jamison
March 20, 2024

Candy Darling’s “Newspaper” Centerfold

Encountering the infamous collage of a downtown legend
Lucy Sante
March 18, 2024

The Story Wars

The conflict between Red and Blue America is a clash of national mythologies
Richard Slotkin
March 11, 2024
Books

Gender Wars

Two scholars excavate the origins of today’s trans backlash
Paisley Currah
March 4, 2024

Heat Maps

Desire in the dark
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
March 4, 2024

Lessons of the Line

Charles Simic and me
Dana Levin
March 4, 2024
Books

Renaissance Women

A new book celebrates—and sells short—Shakespeare’s sisters
Catherine Nicholson
March 4, 2024

The Auteur of Fatherhood

How Steven Spielberg recast American masculinity
Phillip Maciak
March 4, 2024

The Common Reader

Virginia Woolf in The Yale Review
Claire Messud
March 4, 2024
Film

Parents Just Don’t Understand—and That’s OK

All of Us Strangers charts a new direction for queer cinema
Lio Wong
February 26, 2024