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Unpublished journal entries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

Coming to Terms

How do we find the words for our grief?
Mona Arshi
January 24, 2022
Essays

The Century

Farewell to a building—and a time
Langdon Hammer
January 19, 2022
Essays

Against the Stream

The forgotten pleasures of analog media
Jason Guriel
January 10, 2022
Essays

My Mother and The Exorcist

How horror reconciled me to loss
Marlena Williams
December 20, 2021
Graphic with open door and sheer curtains by Tung Chau.
Essays

On Going Outside

What Edgar Allan Poe taught me about life post-lockdown
Emily Ogden
December 13, 2021
View from a train passing through the Republic of Buryatia, Russia.
From the Archives

From “Siberia” to Siberia

Why Russia is not like Europe's "little countries"
Vivian Gornick
December 1, 2021
Photo of Paul Monette by Robert Giard.
Essays

Paul Monette's AIDS Poetry

Turning to the Iliad to survive a great loss
Ellis Jaewon Yeo
December 1, 2021
Phillip James Brannon performing a scene from Nat Turner in Jerusalem
Drama

Revising Nat Turner

The afterlives of first drafts
Nathan Alan Davis
December 1, 2021
Essays

Discovering Hélène Bessette

The innovative fiction of a forgotten French writer
Kate Briggs
December 1, 2021
An excerpt from Vivian Gornick’s Fierce Attachments on the cover of Village Voice.
Essays

The Power of Testimony

Why personal narrative has displaced fiction
Vivian Gornick
December 1, 2021