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

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Essays

The Hall-Mills Murder Trial, 1926

A consideration of death
Harold Schechter
April 1, 2019
A portrait by Picasso of Gertrude Stein.
Essays

“Sitting at the Table” with Stein and Ashbery

“An Occasion” for Thin[g]king
Karin Roffman
April 1, 2019
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Essays

“The Lonely Hearts Killer,” 1957-1958

Notes on a killing
Harold Schechter
March 18, 2019
Northern lights in blue and red on black sky
Essays

How After the Quake You Returned to What Was Lost

A brief moment
Éireann Lorsung
March 11, 2019
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Essays

The “American Tragedy” Murder, 1906

Notes on a killing
Harold Schechter
March 4, 2019
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Essays

Ode to my Father’s Boots

On aging
Cornelius Eady
February 28, 2019
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Essays

The “Sausage Vat Murder,” 1897

Notes on a killing
Harold Schechter
February 18, 2019
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Essays

Philip Roth, Landlord

A literary rentier
Terena Elizabeth Bell
February 4, 2019
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Essays

What Is An Emergency?

On the southern border
Feisal G. Mohamed
January 14, 2019
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Essays

Natural and Spiritual Freedom

Martin Hägglund
January 1, 2019