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

Browse

Nonfiction

Phillip James Brannon performing a scene from Nat Turner in Jerusalem
Drama

Revising Nat Turner

The afterlives of first drafts
Nathan Alan Davis
December 1, 2021
Essays

Discovering Hélène Bessette

The innovative fiction of a forgotten French writer
Kate Briggs
December 1, 2021
An excerpt from Vivian Gornick’s Fierce Attachments on the cover of Village Voice.
Essays

The Power of Testimony

Why personal narrative has displaced fiction
Vivian Gornick
December 1, 2021
Windham Campbell Prizes

A note from the director of the Windham Campbell prizes

Michael Kelleher
December 1, 2021
Graphic with ring light and hand wearing teal nail polish by Tung Chau
Essays

The Screen is a Mirror

On gender transition in the Zoom era
S. Brook Corfman
November 22, 2021
Graphic with lips and motioning hands by Tung Chau
Essays

My Queer Voice

It has outed me my whole life. Why?
Zachary Pace
November 15, 2021
The cast of A Strange Loop singing and dancing.
Essays

Becoming a Playwright

The sources of my storytelling
Michael R. Jackson
November 10, 2021
Graphic with hands holding ballet slippers, weighing scales, and cigarettes.
Essays

Battle Scene

Ballet, trauma, and rebirth
Ian Spencer Bell
October 18, 2021
Graphic with a hamster atop one house and a gravestone atop another.
Essays

A Small Death in the Family

What losing our pet taught me about a much greater, deeper love
Craig Morgan Teicher
October 12, 2021
Oprah Winfrey wears a tiara, standing with cast members of SNL
Television

Has Anyone Talked About How It Feels

Oprah Winfrey’s reign
Kathryn Lofton
September 20, 2021