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

From the Archives

E. M. Forster

The novelist valued friendship above all else
Robert Giroux
April 1, 1987
From the Archives

Maugham

Mary Lee Settle
April 1, 1987
From the Archives

Meeting Matisse

I came looking for the genius behind La Ronde—and found a man sulking over old clippings
Quentin Bell
April 1, 1987
From the Archives

Retrospect: Poetry in Review

Penelope Laurans
December 1, 1985
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
From the Archives

Singing with the Fundamentalists

Annie Dillard
January 1, 1985
From the Archives

Revisionists Revised

Louis Menand
October 1, 1984
From the Archives

A Memoir of George Eliot

Soph’ia V. Kovalevskaia,
translated by Miriam Haskell Berlin
July 1, 1984
From the Archives

The Thought of Movies

Stanley Cavell
January 1, 1983
From the Archives

Mallarmé and Bataille

Richard Howard
October 1, 1982
From the Archives

The Future of Democracy

Richard J. Barnet
September 1, 1982