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

When Democratic Virtues Disintegrate

Carl Becker
July 1, 1939
From the Archives

Two Antiquaries: Walpole and Cole

Virginia Woolf
March 1, 1939
From the Archives

Address at the Dedication of the Thomas Mann Collection at Yale University

Thomas Mann
June 1, 1938
From the Archives

Afterthoughts on Constitutions

Carl Becker
March 1, 1938
From the Archives

A Conversation About Art

Virginia Woolf
September 1, 1934
From the Archives

Hitler’s National Socialism

Leon Trotsky
December 1, 1933
From the Archives

The Novels of Turgenev

Virginia Woolf
December 1, 1933
From the Archives

Social Issues Before the Supreme Court

Felix Frankfurter
March 1, 1933
From the Archives

Goethe

Thomas Mann
June 1, 1932
From the Archives

Letter to a Young Poet

Virginia Woolf
June 1, 1932