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

The Path to Playwright

Discovering my literary hero in an unlikely place
Sonya Kelly

Browse

Nonfiction

Alice Munro

The short-story writer's prismatic final collection
Jane Mendelsohn
April 1, 2014
Essay

My Old Printer

Anne Fadiman
March 12, 2011

The Republic of Letters

Edith Wharton at the Start of Her Career
Hermione Lee
April 1, 2007
Books

Charles Simic

Stephen Yenser
April 1, 2002

Secret Maps

Holly Wright's Photographs of Hands
Charles Simic
October 1, 1996
Black and white photo of light coming through windows in the apse of San Vitale in Ravenna with mosaics. Courtesy N.P. Sullo.

Days of 1952

On the rapture of experiencing art in solitude
James Merrill
April 1, 1992

Fiction in Review

Marilynne Robinson
April 1, 1992
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

Short Talks

Anne Carson
July 1, 1991

"The Waste Land" Revisited

Helen Vendler
December 1, 1990