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

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

Politics and Technology

Edward T. Chase
April 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

Prelude to Independence

Dean Acheson
July 1, 1959