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Unpublished journal entries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

Books

A Problem Shared

A review of Devorah Baum's Feeling Jewish
April 1, 2018
Film

Her Guy Bradlee

A review of Steven Spielberg's The Post
April 1, 2018

Mayberry, USA

Visiting the inspiration for this quintessential American town.
April 1, 2018
Music

Musician Peter Doherty

From The Libertines to Babyshambles to solo artist
April 1, 2018

My Fountain Pen

April 1, 2018

Reading

April 1, 2018

Remembering a Memoir

An afterword to a new edition of French Lessons
April 1, 2018

The Afterlives

A review of Thomas Pierce's first novel.
April 1, 2018

The Poetry of Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Miller Oberman

Their shared preoccupation with the body
April 1, 2018

Tolle, Lege

April 1, 2018