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Unpublished journal entries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

Books

Zora Neale Hurston’s Rediscovered Novel

A new publication obscures the canonical writer
Tiana Reid
March 11, 2025
Trump meets with Zelensky in the Oval Office on February 28, 2025. They sit on upholstered yellow chairs.
Books

Chaos Agent in Chief

What Michael Wolff’s Trump quartet tells us about the next four years
James Surowiecki
March 4, 2025
A movie still of Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce at dusk in “The Brutalist”
Film

America the Brutal

Why The Brutalist isn’t really about architecture
Christopher Hawthorne
February 18, 2025
Objects of Desire

A Dingy White Mug

Holding on to my Nashville childhood
Emily Bernard
February 11, 2025
Black-and-white photo of R.E.M.’s band members standing in a backstage hallway
Books

The Kings of College Radio

What happened when R.E.M. went mainstream
Mina Tavakoli
February 5, 2025
Black-and-white yearbook photo showing David Lynch and Bill Frazier sitting with a group of friends at a fraternity party.
Tribute

Fourteen Memories of David Lynch

My dad remembers the filmmaker as a young artist and fraternity brother
Will Frazier
January 30, 2025
The Moment

Memecoins, Monologues, and Sharpies

A diary of Trump’s inauguration week
James Surowiecki
January 24, 2025
Most-Read Prose White Text on a Plum-Colored Background
From the Editors

Our Most-Read Prose of 2024

December 17, 2024
Essays

In Search of Zabihollah Mansouri

Was Iran’s most famous translator secretly its most prolific author?
Amir Ahmadi Arian
December 10, 2024
Essays

In the Steps of Yvonne Rainer

What failing dance class taught me about writing
John Haskell
December 10, 2024