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

Frederick Douglass and the Language of the Self

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
July 1, 1981
From the Archives

Psychiatric Help 5¢: Psychoanalysis and the Psychotherapies of Liberation

Fred Bloom
and
Alice Bloom
April 1, 1979
From the Archives

Byron and Mr. Briggs

With an introduction by Edward A. Hungerford
Virginia Woolf
March 1, 1979
From the Archives

Pynchon as Satirist: To Write, To Mean

Alfred Mac Adam
June 1, 1978
An abstract print by Jacob van Heemskerck.
Essays

Naming, Being, and Black Experience

Yale’s first Black professor on the presence or absence of names, their status and their scope.
Michael G. Cooke
December 1, 1977
A photograph of a tree.
Essays

The Tolstoyans

On my father's followers
Alexandra Tolstoy
and
Spencer Barnes
December 1, 1977
From the Archives

Achieving the Impossible: Thomas Mann

Henry Hatfield
June 1, 1977
From the Archives

Psychotherapy and Moral Culture: A Psychiatrist’s Field Report

Fred Bloom
March 1, 1977
From the Archives

Reading and Misreading

Jonathan Culler
October 1, 1975
From the Archives

Pynchon’s Gravity

Edward Mendelson
July 1, 1973