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
Essays

Tender Light

The bond between photography and narrative
Emmanuel Iduma

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Nonfiction

Tribute

Charles Simic

Remembering a great poet and friend
Meghan O’Rourke
January 13, 2023
Film

White Noise, New and Improved

How Noah Baumbach transformed a classic satire
Christine Smallwood
January 9, 2023
Essays

Eliot Among the Ruins

The Waste Land remains prophetic, but what did it foretell?
Langdon Hammer
December 12, 2022
Film

On Emancipation

What Hollywood has done to a much-circulated image of American slavery
Lauren Michele Jackson
December 9, 2022
Essays

A Faceless Compass

Johannesburg’s haunted streets
Ivan Vladislavić
December 6, 2022
Essays

Bottle Torches

A fantasia on Nari Ward
Ishion Hutchinson
December 6, 2022
Essays

Case Studies

A critic tracks herself
Margo Jefferson
December 6, 2022
Essays

Reclaiming Tituba

The real story behind Arthur Miller's character
Winsome Pinnock
December 6, 2022
Essays

Remembering Benares

The city that inspired The Romantics
Pankaj Mishra
December 6, 2022
Essays

Tender Light

The bond between photography and narrative
Emmanuel Iduma
December 6, 2022