Nonfiction

Memoir

Writing

Unpublished journal entries
Annie Ernaux
Objects of Desire

My Screenshots

In search of lost memes
Sarah Thankam Mathews
The Moment

The Birthday Party No One Wants

Why Americans aren't celebrating the semiquincentennial
Samuel Moyn
Essays

The End of Books

What happened when a dumpster arrived behind my university's library
Sheila Liming
Ideas

Reading the Declaration of Independence as Holy Text

How the American creed emerged—and evolved—over 250 years
Kathryn Lofton
Essays

Toni Morrison’s Native Figures

A new reading of race in her novels
Namwali Serpell

Browse

Nonfiction

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
Books

The Darker Side of Bambi

What Felix Salten's tale teaches us about the lives of men
Charlie Tyson
November 30, 2022
Books

Whose Trans Realism?

Nevada and the fiction of fucking up
Kay Gabriel
November 14, 2022
Books

A Ritual for Mystery

Clarice Lispector’s crônicas
Jared Marcel Pollen
October 31, 2022
Essays

Community

Finding company on and off the page
Carl Phillips
October 10, 2022
Tribute

Hilary Mantel

Remembering a singular prose stylist
Brian Dillon
September 27, 2022
Essays

Change Trains at Summit

Becoming a poet
Robert Pinsky
September 1, 2022