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

Illustration of Matterhorn (mountain).
Essays

A Mountaineer’s Imagination

Journeying up the Matterhorn
Veronica Tomasic
July 9, 2018
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Essays

Corporatism/Professionalism

An unnecessary distinction
Feisal G. Mohamed
July 3, 2018
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Essays

Bengali Baboo

Deborah Baker
July 1, 2018
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Books

Finding Proust’s Duchess

Clear-sighted literary commentary, and a guilty-pleasure read
Hollie Harder
July 1, 2018
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Essays

Great Aunt Dorothea Mendelssohn

or, Foam on the wave
Lily Tuck
July 1, 2018
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Essays

In the Tank

George Jackson and prison as a system of terror
Tom Sleigh
July 1, 2018
An image of the cover of the novel "The Mars Room"; a photograph of author Rachel Kushner.
Books

On "The Mars Room"

Fiction in Review
Abigail Deutsch
July 1, 2018
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Music

On The New York Philharmonic’s 175th Anniversary

Recordings in Review
Dewey Faulkner
July 1, 2018
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Film

Springes to Catch Woodcocks

On Phantom Thread
Paul Franz
July 1, 2018
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Essays

Unliving Hands

Lyric Distance in Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth”
Adam Keller
July 1, 2018