Nonfiction

Writing

Unpublished journal entries

My Screenshots

In search of lost memes

The Birthday Party No One Wants

Why Americans aren't celebrating the semiquincentennial

The End of Books

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

Reading the Declaration of Independence as Holy Text

How the American creed emerged—and evolved—over 250 years

Toni Morrison’s Native Figures

A new reading of race in her novels

Browse

Nonfiction

Strangers in Our Own Homes

The pandemic’s xenophobic discourse
September 20, 2021

The Brink of Destruction

Revisiting John Ashbery’s “Soonest Mended”
September 20, 2021

Suicide in Fiction, Reconsidered

Why we need stories about living after a suicide attempt
September 7, 2021

In the Riot Grrrl Archive

Punk and the limits of individualism
July 19, 2021

Lullaby

On motherhood and the pain of holding
July 12, 2021

How to Come Back to Life

On reaching middle age and carrying on
June 28, 2021

I Killed, I Died

Banter, self-destruction, and the poetry reading
June 28, 2021
Books

Machado de Assis’s Afterlives

The Brazilian novelist’s overlooked politics
June 28, 2021
Books

No-No Man

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s nihilist masterpiece
June 28, 2021

The Heart of Fiction

Storytelling, experience, and truth
June 28, 2021