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Unpublished journal entries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

Reading and Misreading

October 1, 1975

Pynchon’s Gravity

July 1, 1973

Creativity, Poetic Language, and the Computer

What's distinctly human about writing a poem?
June 1, 1971

New Books in Review

Poems and Books of Poems
October 1, 1963

Politics and Technology

April 1, 1963