Nonfiction

Memoir

Writing

Unpublished journal entries
Annie Ernaux
Objects of Desire

My Screenshots

In search of lost memes
Sarah Thankam Mathews
The Moment

The Birthday Party No One Wants

Why Americans aren't celebrating the semiquincentennial
Samuel Moyn
Essays

The End of Books

What happened when a dumpster arrived behind my university's library
Sheila Liming
Ideas

Reading the Declaration of Independence as Holy Text

How the American creed emerged—and evolved—over 250 years
Kathryn Lofton
Essays

Toni Morrison’s Native Figures

A new reading of race in her novels
Namwali Serpell

Browse

Nonfiction

The Moment

In the Shallows

Why do public intellectuals condescend to their readers?
Becca Rothfeld
September 18, 2023
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The playwright’s lesbian fiction has gone largely unpublished.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
Books

The Choice Plot

Why are so many new novels obsessed with whether–and how–to have children?
Sanjena Sathian
September 18, 2023
Essays

Unfathomable Life

As a philosopher, I thought I understood risk. Then I tried to get pregnant.
Anna Hartford
September 18, 2023
Television and Film

Service or Servitude?

The Bear and The Menu give us very different views of capitalism
Daniel W. Drezner
September 12, 2023
Essays

Abstraction and Nonsense

The real in fiction
Percival Everett
June 12, 2023
Essays

Ahead of Time

On poetry and mourning
Kamran Javadizadeh
June 12, 2023
Essays

James Baldwin in Turkey

How Istanbul changed his career—and his life
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
June 12, 2023
Essays

New York Anabasis

In praise of the return to the surface
Rachel Eisendrath
June 12, 2023
Essays

Notes on Affirmation

SFFA v. Harvard and the quest for acceptance
Thomas Dai
June 12, 2023