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

Aurora Leigh

Virginia Woolf
June 1, 1931
From the Archives

Memories of a Working Women’s Guild

Virginia Woolf
September 1, 1930
From the Archives

Augustine Birrell

Virginia Woolf
June 1, 1930
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour

Vita Sackville-West
September 1, 1929
From the Archives

Street Haunting: A London Adventure

Virginia Woolf
October 1, 1927
A painting of a woman reading at a table.
From the Archives

How Should One Read a Book?

Read it as if one were writing it
Virginia Woolf
September 1, 1926
From the Archives

The Novels of Virginia Woolf

E. M. Forster
April 1, 1926
From the Archives

Scholarship and Literary Criticism

Albert Feuillerat
January 1, 1925
From the Archives

The American Democratic Ideal

Brooks Adams
January 1, 1916
From the Archives

The Powers of the President

William Howard Taft
October 1, 1914