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

The Tim Seibles BOOKBIOBOARDGAME

Tracing a poetic lineage
Terrance Hayes
June 1, 2022
Essays

My Father's Library

Can you know a man through his books?
Violaine Huisman
May 23, 2022
Books

Why So Serious?

Sang Young Park’s angrily funny work charts a new path for gay fiction
Spencer Lee-Lenfield
May 16, 2022
Essays

Que Será, Será

Conjuring a long-forgotten memory of my mother
Sven Birkerts
April 11, 2022
Pandemic Files

Lighted Windows in Lockdown

The visible and invisible lives of others
Ben Libman
March 14, 2022
Essays

My Painting of Kyiv

Will the birthplace I love still exist for my daughter?
Maria Kuznetsova
March 12, 2022
Folio

Ownership: An Introduction

Nine writers on the complexities of property
Eula Biss
March 1, 2022
Portrait of Sheila Heti
Books

The Sublime Modes of Sheila Heti

The novelist as philosopher
Noreen Khawaja
March 1, 2022
On Craft

The Art of Control

Peter Bogdanovich’s masterful restraint
Jason Guriel
February 21, 2022
Essays

Coming to Terms

How do we find the words for our grief?
Mona Arshi
January 24, 2022