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Unpublished journal entries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

Unliving Hands

Lyric Distance in Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth”
Adam Keller
July 1, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Criticism

Wrestling with Machado

Ilan Stavans
July 1, 2018
The tombstone of Naomi Wise.
Essays

The Murder of “Omie Wise,” 1808

Notes on a killing
Harold Schechter
June 29, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

The Colt-Adams Affair, 1841

Notes on a murder
Harold Schechter
June 25, 2018
A detail of a screaming face
Essays

Sensitivity/Enlightenment

A distinction
Feisal G. Mohamed
June 5, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

The Trunk Murders, 1931

Notes on a killing
Harold Schechter
May 27, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

Religion/Fundamentalism

A distinction
Feisal G. Mohamed
May 21, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

The Kidnapping of Little Charley Ross, 1874

Notes on a killing
Harold Schechter
May 14, 2018
Flemish painting of people paying taxes
Essays

Deep Politics, Shallow Politics

Feisal G. Mohamed
May 10, 2018
A typewriter. https://www.flickr.com/photos/22017189@N00/2621358221
Essays

100 Things About Writing a Novel

What to do—and when to do it
Alexander Chee
April 1, 2018