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Unpublished journal entries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

A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

Prison Term

Peter Brooks
January 1, 2019
Early 20th-c painting of naked white person of uncertain gender with mid-length hair on a swing in front of a castle/clouds
Essays

Still, Image

Excerpts from In Remembrance of Things Past
Gerard Malanga
January 1, 2019
Painting showing a man and woman in a field
Criticism

The Angelus

Nan Z. Da
January 1, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

What You Have Heard Is True

Remembering the fight for Salvadoran freedom
Carolyn Forché
January 1, 2019
Close-up of a dahlia
Essays

Esmeralda

A poem and a flower
Melissa Hunter Gurney
December 24, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

The Old Place

Place and technology
Anna Lewis
December 17, 2018
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Books

Bondage and Freedom

Frederick Douglass
David W. Blight
October 1, 2018
An old advertisement for Lucky Strike in which a blonde woman lights a cigarette.
Essays

Computational Propaganda

Public relations in a high-tech age
Renée DiResta
October 1, 2018
Picture of angel figure over the plains
Essays

Getting It Twisted

Jabari Asim
October 1, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

Incarcerated Language

Reginald Dwayne Betts
October 1, 2018