Nonfiction

The Moment

A Reviewer’s Life

The material constraints of writing criticism today
Christine Smallwood
The Moment

Palestinian Solidarity, Then and Now

The power of encampment as a form of protest
Feisal G. Mohamed
Objects of Desire

Absolute Darkness

A curious disorientation
Lydia Davis
Essays

The Critic as Friend

The challenge of reading generously
Merve Emre
Essays

Louise Glück’s Late Style

The fabular turn in the poet’s last three books
Teju Cole
Essays

Jean Stein’s Rolodex

The legendary editor’s social genius
Benjamin Anastas

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Nonfiction

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Essays

The Kidnapping of Little Charley Ross, 1874

Notes on a killing
Harold Schechter
May 14, 2018
Flemish painting of people paying taxes
Essays

Deep Politics, Shallow Politics

Feisal G. Mohamed
May 10, 2018
A typewriter. https://www.flickr.com/photos/22017189@N00/2621358221
Essays

100 Things About Writing a Novel

What to do—and when to do it
Alexander Chee
April 1, 2018
The cover of the book Feeling Jewish by Devorah Baum.
Books

A Problem Shared

A review of Devorah Baum's Feeling Jewish
Leah Mirakhor
April 1, 2018
Scene from movie, The Post. Meryl Streep looks at Tom Hanks.
Film

Her Guy Bradlee

A review of Steven Spielberg's The Post
Charles Taylor
April 1, 2018
A still of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts in "The Andy Griffith Show."

Mayberry, USA

Visiting the inspiration for this quintessential American town.
Yunte Huang
April 1, 2018
Musician Peter Doherty
Music

Musician Peter Doherty

From The Libertines to Babyshambles to solo artist
R. Clifton Spargo
April 1, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

My Fountain Pen

J. D. McClatchy
April 1, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

Reading

J. D. McClatchy
April 1, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

Remembering a Memoir

An afterword to a new edition of French Lessons
Alice Kaplan
April 1, 2018