Nonfiction

Essays

The Body I Couldn't Abstract

Motherhood reshaped how I see shame, art, and the female body
Megan O’Grady
Objects of Desire

A Night’s Sleep

An insomniac’s lifelong pursuit
Vincenzo Latronico
Memoir

Dogsbody

Dale Peck
A Closer Look

An Unsettling Civil War Photograph

An image from the Battle of the Wilderness
Rachel Eisendrath
Essays

Night Knowledge

What I learned at the club
Aria Aber
Essays

Quiver and Fixity

What I found returning to Thomas Hardy in midlife
Jhumpa Lahiri

Browse

Nonfiction

Close-up of a dahlia
Essays

Esmeralda

A poem and a flower
Melissa Hunter Gurney
December 24, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

The Old Place

Place and technology
Anna Lewis
December 17, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Books

Bondage and Freedom

Frederick Douglass
David W. Blight
October 1, 2018
An old advertisement for Lucky Strike in which a blonde woman lights a cigarette.
Essays

Computational Propaganda

Public relations in a high-tech age
Renée DiResta
October 1, 2018
Picture of angel figure over the plains
Essays

Getting It Twisted

Jabari Asim
October 1, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

Incarcerated Language

Reginald Dwayne Betts
October 1, 2018
A photograph of Leni Riefenstahl during filming, 1936.
Essays

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.
Essays

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