Nonfiction

The Body I Couldn't Abstract

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

A Night’s Sleep

An insomniac’s lifelong pursuit
Vincenzo Latronico

Dogsbody

Dale Peck

An Unsettling Civil War Photograph

An image from the Battle of the Wilderness
Rachel Eisendrath

Night Knowledge

What I learned at the club
Aria Aber

Quiver and Fixity

What I found returning to Thomas Hardy in midlife
Jhumpa Lahiri

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Nonfiction

A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

My Fountain Pen

J. D. McClatchy
April 1, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

Reading

J. D. McClatchy
April 1, 2018
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Remembering a Memoir

An afterword to a new edition of French Lessons
Alice Kaplan
April 1, 2018
The writer Thomas Pierce and the cover of his book The Afterlives.

The Afterlives

A review of Thomas Pierce's first novel.
David Galef
April 1, 2018
Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Miller Oberman

The Poetry of Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Miller Oberman

Their shared preoccupation with the body
Danielle Chapman
April 1, 2018
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Tolle, Lege

Gregory Pardlo
April 1, 2018
pastoral scene with sheep

Ashbery’s Pastoral Art

Echoes of an older age
Giulio J. Pertile
November 1, 2017
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HMS Bounty

A moment in Venice
Rachel Kushner
November 1, 2017
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Books

On Claire Messud

Fiction in review
Marta Figlerowicz
November 1, 2017
Detail from cover of Bidart's book; classical statue of Perseus holding Medusa's head.
Books

On Frank Bidart

Poetry in review
Christopher Spaide
November 1, 2017