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

From the Archives

Reading and Misreading

Jonathan Culler
October 1, 1975
Detail of a microchip
Essays

Creativity, Poetic Language, and the Computer

What's distinctly human about writing a poem?
Marie Borroff
June 1, 1971
From the Archives

Reminiscences of Thomas Mann

Konrad Kellen
March 1, 1965
From the Archives

The Function of Criticism Once More

Robert Langbaum
December 1, 1964
From the Archives

The Idea of Perfection

Iris Murdoch
March 1, 1964
From the Archives

New Books in Review

Poems and Books of Poems
Thom Gunn
October 1, 1963
From the Archives

Outside Faction

Thom Gunn
June 1, 1961
From the Archives

Voices of Their Own

Thom Gunn
June 1, 1960
From the Archives

Excellence and Variety

Thom Gunn
January 1, 1960
From the Archives

Poetry as Written

Thom Gunn
January 1, 1959