Nonfiction

Essays

Lessons of the Line

Charles Simic and me
Dana Levin
Books

Revisiting Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance

The novel that introduced a new post-Stonewall gay sensibility
Garth Greenwell
Television

Streaming the Polycrisis

Why have TV miniseries about catastrophe become all the rage?
Adam Fales
Essays

Ucky Art

Judith Scott, Eva Hesse, and the visceral power of "texxture"
Lauren Elkin
Essays

Heat Maps

Desire in the dark
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Books

Gender Wars

Two scholars excavate the origins of today’s trans backlash
Paisley Currah

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Nonfiction

Books

Ordinary Allurements

Christina Sharpe’s reading lessons
Elleza Kelley
June 12, 2023
Books

The Consolations of Failure

Two new books look at what failing can—and cannot—teach us
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
June 12, 2023
Essays

This Part of Our Lives Is Over

Sending my daughter to Japan
Emily Bernard
June 12, 2023
Essays

[I had a dream last night]

Brandon Shimoda
June 5, 2023
Folio

Beyond the Attention Economy

Turning to face our burning world
Laura Dassow Walls
May 23, 2023
Folio

How to Sharpen a Scythe

Is paying attention good in itself?
Daegan Miller
May 23, 2023
Folio

Sublimation and Self-Possession

Bearing witness to life’s weirdness
Ana Schwartz
May 23, 2023
Folio

The Saunterers’ Club

In pursuit of a more wayward Thoreau
Caleb Smith
May 23, 2023
Essays

The Winter Zoo

Visiting animals when most humans stay away
Kate Zambreno
May 8, 2023
Essays

Monstrous Hybrids and the Conjuring of Legacy

A visit to a namesake scrapyard changes a novelist's sense of inheritance
Idra Novey
April 5, 2023