Nonfiction

The Shapes of Grief

Witnessing the unbearable

Christina Sharpe

Writing in Pictures

Richard Scarry and the art of children’s literature

Chris Ware

Is Blasphemy Illiberal?

Salman Rushdie’s thoroughly modern controversies

Len Gutkin

How Mike Kelley Became Himself

The artist’s search for subcultural America

Jonathan Griffin

Objects of Desire

Richard Pryor

A fiction

Hilton Als

The Path to Playwright

Discovering my literary hero in an unlikely place

Sonya Kelly

Browse

Nonfiction

black and white photo of low and heavy clouds

The Heavy Air

Capitalism and affronts to common sense

Anne Boyer

December 1, 2020

The activist Gloria Richardson walking past National Guardsmen during a civil rights march in Cambridge

Unbothered

The grace of black nonchalance

Namwali Serpell

December 1, 2020

Portrait of Samuel Delany at his desk turning to look over his shoulder

Why I Write

Getting ready not to be

Samuel R. Delany

December 1, 2020

various sizes of metallic squares with gold borders

Wildness

Feminism, identity, and the willingness to be defeated

Maria Tumarkin

December 1, 2020

Cracks in ice

Did I Write a Feel-Good Book?

I survived a terrorist attack. I never expected my story might console others.

Philippe Lançon

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Steven Rendall

November 23, 2020

Art

Untitled (Event)

Loss, language, counting the nameless, and the art of Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Ann Lauterbach

November 16, 2020

The Wondrous Banality of Democracy

Counting the votes in one Pennsylvania county during the 2020 presidential election

John Fabian Witt

November 13, 2020

A Witness to Survival

Hannah Sassoon

September 24, 2020

photograph of metal match box with "a [image of a match] for you at any time" printed on the front

Everything Bright Is Something Burned

How to mourn a planet

Erica Berry

September 1, 2020

Blurred photograph of trees with barely distinguishable reflection of two people

Lovecraft and Me

How cosmic horror gave me hope

Kieran Setiya

September 1, 2020

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