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

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
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Essays

Prison Term

Peter Brooks
January 1, 2019
Early 20th-c painting of naked white person of uncertain gender with mid-length hair on a swing in front of a castle/clouds
Essays

Still, Image

Excerpts from In Remembrance of Things Past
Gerard Malanga
January 1, 2019
Painting showing a man and woman in a field
Criticism

The Angelus

Nan Z. Da
January 1, 2019
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Essays

What You Have Heard Is True

Remembering the fight for Salvadoran freedom
Carolyn Forché
January 1, 2019
A cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
Books

“They Don’t Know It, but We’re Integrated”

Thomas Pynchon’s “The Secret Integration” and The Saturday Evening Post
Terry Reilly
January 1, 2019
Close-up of a dahlia
Essays

Esmeralda

A poem and a flower
Melissa Hunter Gurney
December 24, 2018
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Essays

The Old Place

Place and technology
Anna Lewis
December 17, 2018
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Books

Bondage and Freedom

Frederick Douglass
David W. Blight
October 1, 2018