Nonfiction

Memoir

Writing

Unpublished journal entries
Annie Ernaux
Objects of Desire

My Screenshots

In search of lost memes
Sarah Thankam Mathews
The Moment

The Birthday Party No One Wants

Why Americans aren't celebrating the semiquincentennial
Samuel Moyn
Essays

The End of Books

What happened when a dumpster arrived behind my university's library
Sheila Liming
Ideas

Reading the Declaration of Independence as Holy Text

How the American creed emerged—and evolved—over 250 years
Kathryn Lofton
Essays

Toni Morrison’s Native Figures

A new reading of race in her novels
Namwali Serpell

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Nonfiction

Tove Jansson at her desk. ©Eva Konikoff/Moomin Characteers™
Books

Tove Jansson’s Genius

The radical imagination that built the visionary world of the Moomins
Evan James
June 1, 2020
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.
Pandemic Files

The Profound Horror of the Mass Grave

If funerals show a society’s endurance, ours is coming apart
Kathryn Lofton
May 19, 2020
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.
Pandemic Files

Sirenland

The crisis in New York City
Briallen Hopper
April 8, 2020
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.
Pandemic Files

Passing through Danger

Finding words for this pandemic in Inupiaq
Joan Naviyuk Kane
April 3, 2020
Traffic in smog
Essays

Driving Us to Despair

Soul-killing and racist, the American commute is deeply wrong
Jess Row
April 1, 2020
Cityscape
Essays

Copying & Lying

From For Now
Eileen Myles
April 1, 2020
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

Is This Tyranny?

How losing the right to vote changed my understanding of America
Feisal G. Mohamed
April 1, 2020
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.
Pandemic Files

Cannon Fodder

A doctor on the front lines
Laura Kolbe
March 27, 2020
An old document discussing impeachement

Do They Dare to Impeach?

What history tells us about the case against Trump
Feisal G. Mohamed
January 23, 2020
Fine art of a woman bathing
Essays

A Common Seagull

On making art and mourning
Sheila Heti
January 1, 2020