Nonfiction

Essays

A Faceless Compass

Johannesburg’s haunted streets
Ivan Vladislavić
Essays

The Path to "River See"

How improvisation and ancestry shape a playwright's work
Sharon Bridgforth
Essays

Reclaiming Tituba

The real story behind Arthur Miller's character
Winsome Pinnock
Essays

Bottle Torches

A fantasia on Nari Ward
Ishion Hutchinson
Essays

Remembering Benares

The city that inspired The Romantics
Pankaj Mishra
Essay

Tender Light

The bond between photography and narrative
Emmanuel Iduma

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From the Archives

Short Talks

Anne Carson
July 1, 1991
From the Archives

"The Waste Land" Revisited

Helen Vendler
December 1, 1990
From the Archives

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

James Merrill
December 1, 1989
From the Archives

Ash-Wednesday

Richard Wilbur
December 1, 1989
From the Archives

The First Eighteen Lines of The Waste Land

Anthony Hecht
December 1, 1989
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From the Archives

A Legend in My Life

My encounters with the incomparable Greta Garbo
Vincent Price
July 1, 1988
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From the Archives

Making Contact

Encounters with readers
Annie Dillard
July 1, 1988
From the Archives

Women's Rights: Unspeakable Issues in the Constitution

Nancy F. Cott
June 1, 1988
Polaroid of Francine du Plessix Gray

Charles Olson and an American Place

Francine du Plessix Gray
April 1, 1987
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From the Archives

Singing with the Fundamentalists

Annie Dillard
January 1, 1985