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Unpublished journal entries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

The Novels of Turgenev

Virginia Woolf
December 1, 1933
From the Archives

Social Issues Before the Supreme Court

Felix Frankfurter
March 1, 1933
From the Archives

Goethe

Thomas Mann
June 1, 1932
From the Archives

Letter to a Young Poet

Virginia Woolf
June 1, 1932
From the Archives

Aurora Leigh

Virginia Woolf
June 1, 1931
From the Archives

Memories of a Working Women’s Guild

Virginia Woolf
September 1, 1930
From the Archives

Augustine Birrell

Virginia Woolf
June 1, 1930
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour

Vita Sackville-West
September 1, 1929
From the Archives

Street Haunting: A London Adventure

Virginia Woolf
October 1, 1927
A painting of a woman reading at a table.
From the Archives

How Should One Read a Book?

Read it as if one were writing it
Virginia Woolf
September 1, 1926