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Unpublished journal entries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

From the Archives

A Memoir of George Eliot

Soph’ia V. Kovalevskaia,
translated by Miriam Haskell Berlin
July 1, 1984
From the Archives

The Thought of Movies

Stanley Cavell
January 1, 1983
From the Archives

Mallarmé and Bataille

Richard Howard
October 1, 1982
From the Archives

The Future of Democracy

Richard J. Barnet
September 1, 1982
From the Archives

Frederick Douglass and the Language of the Self

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
July 1, 1981
From the Archives

Psychiatric Help 5¢: Psychoanalysis and the Psychotherapies of Liberation

Fred Bloom
and
Alice Bloom
April 1, 1979
From the Archives

Byron and Mr. Briggs

With an introduction by Edward A. Hungerford
Virginia Woolf
March 1, 1979
From the Archives

Pynchon as Satirist: To Write, To Mean

Alfred Mac Adam
June 1, 1978
An abstract print by Jacob van Heemskerck.
Essays

Naming, Being, and Black Experience

Yale’s first Black professor on the presence or absence of names, their status and their scope.
Michael G. Cooke
December 1, 1977
A photograph of a tree.
Essays

The Tolstoyans

On my father's followers
Alexandra Tolstoy
and
Spencer Barnes
December 1, 1977