Nonfiction

Essays

The Body I Couldn't Abstract

Motherhood reshaped how I see shame, art, and the female body
Megan O’Grady
Objects of Desire

A Night’s Sleep

An insomniac’s lifelong pursuit
Vincenzo Latronico
Memoir

Dogsbody

Dale Peck
A Closer Look

An Unsettling Civil War Photograph

An image from the Battle of the Wilderness
Rachel Eisendrath
Essays

Night Knowledge

What I learned at the club
Aria Aber
Essays

Quiver and Fixity

What I found returning to Thomas Hardy in midlife
Jhumpa Lahiri

Browse

Nonfiction

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
Essays

Tender Light

The bond between photography and narrative
Emmanuel Iduma
December 6, 2022
Essays

The Path to "River See"

How improvisation and ancestry shape a playwright's work
Sharon Bridgforth
December 6, 2022
Essays

The Rest of the Story

Remembering childhood
Carolyn Forché
December 6, 2022