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Essays

Invisible Bridges

On Ukraine, Russia, and friendships
Marci Shore
September 1, 2022
Phillip James Brannon performing a scene from Nat Turner in Jerusalem
Drama

Revising Nat Turner

The afterlives of first drafts
Nathan Alan Davis
December 1, 2021
An excerpt from Vivian Gornick’s Fierce Attachments on the cover of Village Voice.
Essays

The Power of Testimony

Why personal narrative has displaced fiction
Vivian Gornick
December 1, 2021
Essays

Lorraine Hansberry’s Queer Archive

The playwright’s lesbian fiction has gone largely unpublished. But she wanted you to read it.
Alec Pollak
September 18, 2023
From the Archives

Tides of American Politics

Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.
December 1, 1939
From the Archives

Afterthoughts on Constitutions

Carl Becker
March 1, 1938
From the Archives

Legislative-Executive Relations

Dean Acheson
June 1, 1956
The Moment

Why Han Kang’s Nobel Matters

My mother’s generation experienced unspeakable violence. Han found the words for it.
Yung In Chae
October 15, 2024
Folio

History Is Repeating Itself in Ukraine

Cycles of nationalism have existed for centuries. What do they reveal?
Andreas Wimmer
October 22, 2024
Folio

How the Radical Right Remade Nationalism

What happens when the central goal of politics becomes preserving national identity?
Suzanne Schneider
October 22, 2024