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

Fine art of a woman bathing
Essays

A Common Seagull

On making art and mourning
Sheila Heti
January 1, 2020
A man and woman talking on a sofa
Portfolios

Art: Consuelo Kanaga

Eugenia Bell
January 1, 2020
Abstract automaton
Essays

Broken Doll

A daughter’s suicide in another country
Carlos Manuel Álvarez
and
Rahul Bery
January 1, 2020
Author photo
Essays

Changing My Mind

On sources, revision, and order
Lydia Davis
January 1, 2020
Susan Sontag, New York, February 2, 1978. Photograph by Richard Avedon. ©The Richard Avedon Foundation.
Books

Furious Permissions

For Susan Sontag, style was nourishment
Brian Dillon
January 1, 2020
A photo of the author's mother and brother in 1974
Essays

Ghosts in My Nursery

Mourning the brother I never knew
Miranda Featherstone
January 1, 2020
A blurred photo of lights
Essays

In Centennial

The only ones left alive
Cathy Park Hong
January 1, 2020
An old photo of baseball players
Essays

Loss

When yearning is a pleasure
Sarah Manguso
January 1, 2020
Portrait of the author's mother
Essays

Stereopticon

Twelve ways of looking at my mother
Emily Bernard
January 1, 2020
Portrait of J. D. McClatchy
Essays

Still to Love

For J. D. McClatchy
Langdon Hammer
January 1, 2020