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Unpublished journal entries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 Virginia Woolf

E. M. Forster
April 1, 1926
From the Archives

Scholarship and Literary Criticism

Albert Feuillerat
January 1, 1925
From the Archives

The American Democratic Ideal

Brooks Adams
January 1, 1916
From the Archives

The Powers of the President

William Howard Taft
October 1, 1914
From the Archives

Literary Criticism in American Periodicals

Bliss Perry
July 1, 1914
From the Archives

A Jane Austen Letter with Other “Janeana” from an Old Book of Autographs

M. A. De Wolfe Howe
Folio

Donna Haraway’s Utopian Promise

We were supposed to become feminist cyborgs. Instead, we got ChatGPT.
Meghan O’Gieblyn
Letters

Niki de Saint Phalle's Inner World

A selection of the French artist's letters
Nicole Rudick
Ideas

The All Play No Fun Economy

How did we end up teetering between euphoria and exhaustion?
Jessikah Díaz
A portrait of Heaney O Connor

The Impact of Translation

Seamus Heaney