Nonfiction

Lessons of the Line

Charles Simic and me

Dana Levin

Revisiting Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance

The novel that introduced a new post-Stonewall gay sensibility

Garth Greenwell

Streaming the Polycrisis

Why have TV miniseries about catastrophe become all the rage?

Adam Fales

Ucky Art

Judith Scott, Eva Hesse, and the visceral power of "texxture"

Lauren Elkin

Heat Maps

Desire in the dark

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Books

Gender Wars

Two scholars excavate the origins of today’s trans backlash

Paisley Currah

Browse

Nonfiction

A stack of books

The Moment

On Rereading

Remaking the world

Victor Brombert

May 19, 2021

An image from Ingmar Bergman's Persona

My Year of Stalking Rachel

The quest to see without being seen

Becca Rothfeld

May 19, 2021

The Smiths vinyl among records on a shelf

The Wrong Daddy

Morrissey and the cult of the wounded white male

Jeremy Atherton Lin

May 19, 2021

The author with her sister in childhood.

There I Almost Am

On envy and twinship

Jean Garnett

May 19, 2021

people walking in front of a building, black and whtie photo

We Have a Body

The deaths of patients—and colleagues

Suzanne Koven

May 19, 2021

Adam Zagajewski. Courtesy Donostia Kultura

Remembering Adam Zagajewski

A poet of the human soul

Ilya Kaminsky

May 6, 2021

A woman at the beach with a watermelon

The Wild, Sublime Body

Learning how to be human

Melissa Febos

March 10, 2021

Men in an airport lounge

Books

Olga Tokarczuk’s Radical Tenderness

Reading the Nobel winner's oeuvre

Marek Makowski

February 16, 2021

A version of the California flag with "Twitter" replacing "California" in the banner's text section

Against Abdicating Power to Big Tech

We can’t rely on Big Tech to reign over online speech

Claire Bond Potter

February 1, 2021

A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

My Summer of Julien Gracq

Reading a French novelist’s examination of liminal space in a plague year

Seth Lerer

January 11, 2021

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