Nonfiction
The Body I Couldn't Abstract
Motherhood reshaped how I see shame, art, and the female body
Megan O’Grady
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The Unfolding of Time in Paint
My encounters with Joan Mitchell's panels
Rachel Cohen
December 11, 2025
Robert Glück
The writer remembers an era of sexual freedom and mourns literary lives cut short
Samuel Ernest
December 1, 2025
Who Was the Foodie?
What it would mean to take taste seriously again
Alicia Kennedy
November 17, 2025
The Book That Changed How We Think About Rape
Fifty years on, what lessons endure from Against Our Will?
Claire Bond Potter
November 10, 2025
What “After the Hunt” Gets Right
I left academia. Luca Guadagnino’s new film reminds me why.
Annie Julia Wyman
November 3, 2025
An Incomplete Mentorship
Ellen Bryant Voigt helped me become the writer I am today. After a falling out, we never spoke again.
Rachel Jamison Webster
October 30, 2025
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Four poets remember a singular mentor
Catherine Barnett,
Victoria Chang,
Meghan O’Rourke,
and
Carl Phillips
October 28, 2025
Thomas Pynchon Is Angry
In Shadow Ticket, the novelist takes on America’s indifference to history
Richard Beck
October 27, 2025
How We’ve Misunderstood Taylor Swift
The Life of a Showgirl received mixed reviews from fans and critics. But it may be her most honest work yet.
Stephanie Burt
October 20, 2025
How Sober Should a Writer Be?
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the ambivalence of American drinking culture
Sloane Crosley
October 6, 2025