Nonfiction

The Shapes of Grief

Witnessing the unbearable

Christina Sharpe

Writing in Pictures

Richard Scarry and the art of children’s literature

Chris Ware

Is Blasphemy Illiberal?

Salman Rushdie’s thoroughly modern controversies

Len Gutkin

How Mike Kelley Became Himself

The artist’s search for subcultural America

Jonathan Griffin

Objects of Desire

Richard Pryor

A fiction

Hilton Als

The Path to Playwright

Discovering my literary hero in an unlikely place

Sonya Kelly

Browse

Nonfiction

An old advertisement for Lucky Strike in which a blonde woman lights a cigarette.

Computational Propaganda

Public relations in a high-tech age

Renée DiResta

October 1, 2018

Picture of angel figure over the plains

Getting It Twisted

Jabari Asim

October 1, 2018

A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

Incarcerated Language

Reginald Dwayne Betts

October 1, 2018

A photograph of Leni Riefenstahl during filming, 1936.

Leni Riefenstahl

On a Nazi female filmmaker

Francine Prose

October 1, 2018

Two girls lie facing each other

Film

Life Unamplified

The small-scale satisfactions of Brett Haley’s Hearts Beat Loud

Charles Taylor

October 1, 2018

A poster with figures whose bodies include the letters C and P. El Lissitzky, Basic Calculus, 1928.

Of Martyrs and Robots

Propaganda and group identity

Megan Hyska

October 1, 2018

The covers of two of author Nina Sun Eidsheim's books side by side

Music

Racialized Timbre

Listening to listening with musicologist Nina Eidsheim

Marit MacArthur

October 1, 2018

A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

The Misinformation Age

Weaponizing Reputation

Cailin O’Connor

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James Owen Weatherall

October 1, 2018

A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

Walk Past the Vines, Past the Orchards

When friends talk about art

Meltem Gürle

September 24, 2018

A photo of the author and her brother, with other children

The Good Brother

On siblings

Mary Barnett

September 12, 2018

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