Nonfiction

Essays

The Shapes of Grief

Witnessing the unbearable
Christina Sharpe
Books

Writing in Pictures

Richard Scarry and the art of children’s literature
Chris Ware
Books

Is Blasphemy Illiberal?

Salman Rushdie’s thoroughly modern controversies
Len Gutkin
Art

How Mike Kelley Became Himself

The artist’s search for subcultural America
Jonathan Griffin
Objects of Desire

Richard Pryor

A fiction
Hilton Als
Essays

The Path to Playwright

Discovering my literary hero in an unlikely place
Sonya Kelly

Browse

Nonfiction

A Closer Look

Rembrandt’s Reclining Female Nude

What the print reveals about a body at rest
Rachel Eisendrath
June 10, 2024
Books

Stealing the Show

Why conservatives killed America’s federally funded theater
Charlie Tyson
June 10, 2024
From the Editors

Teju Cole

An Introduction to the 2024 Finzi-Contini Lecture
Meghan O’Rourke
June 10, 2024
Essays

The Critic as Friend

The challenge of reading generously
Merve Emre
June 10, 2024
Objects of Desire

Absolute Darkness

A curious disorientation
Lydia Davis
June 3, 2024
The Moment

Palestinian Solidarity, Then and Now

The power of encampment as a form of protest
Feisal G. Mohamed
May 29, 2024
Objects of Desire

Tiger’s Eye Mala

The prayer beads that saw me through a feverish midlife crisis
Lauren Groff
May 22, 2024
A Closer Look

Harold Cohen’s AARON

What a prescient work of computer art tells us about AI
Joanne McNeil
May 20, 2024
Tribute

Paul Auster

Why the novelist’s brand of postmodern detective fiction still matters
Ben Libman
May 7, 2024
Essays

Yellow Band

A diagnosis alters a writer's relationship to his work
Steve Edwards
April 29, 2024