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

Art

Finding the Real in Photorealism

Do we want art to transform our lives?
Jonathan Griffin
March 11, 2025
Objects of Desire

My Mother’s Ashtray

When I lost her, I lost a world
Jonathan Lethem
March 11, 2025
The Moment

Reading During a Genocide

What Etel Adnan's novel taught me
Isabella Hammad
March 11, 2025
Memoir

Scenes from Childhood

The unseen world of the great playwright
Adrienne Kennedy
March 11, 2025
Essays

The Broken Cadillac

When you wish you could refuse an inheritance
Jennifer Stock
March 11, 2025
Essays

The Comforts of Geological Time

How to grieve when you don’t know how
Edmée Lepercq
March 11, 2025
Books

Zora Neale Hurston’s Rediscovered Novel

A new publication obscures the canonical writer
Tiana Reid
March 11, 2025
Trump meets with Zelensky in the Oval Office on February 28, 2025. They sit on upholstered yellow chairs.
Books

Chaos Agent in Chief

What Michael Wolff’s Trump quartet tells us about the next four years
James Surowiecki
March 4, 2025
A movie still of Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce at dusk in “The Brutalist”
Film

America the Brutal

Why The Brutalist isn’t really about architecture
Christopher Hawthorne
February 18, 2025
Objects of Desire

A Dingy White Mug

Holding on to my Nashville childhood
Emily Bernard
February 11, 2025