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Unpublished journal entries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

Browse

Nonfiction

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Essays

On This Day

The war and the memories
Mary Barnett
July 16, 2018
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