Nonfiction

When Does a Divorce Begin?

Most people think of it as failure. For me it was an achievement.
Anahid Nersessian

Vanity Fair’s Heyday

I was once paid six figures to write an article—now what?
Bryan Burrough

Taking Offense

Reading through bad feeling
Garth Greenwell
Dan Fox as a child with his nain, or grandmother, in the chicken-filled yard of Siambr Wen, near Llanrwst, North Wales, UK

What Happened When I Began to Speak Welsh

By learning my family's language, I hoped to join their conversation.
Dan Fox
Sepia toned photograph showing painter Joan Mitchell behind a canvas in her studio

The Unfolding of Time in Paint

My encounters with Joan Mitchell's panels
Rachel Cohen

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Nonfiction

All at Once, the Multiverse Is Everywhere

Why today's movies, TV shows, and literature love branching timelines and many worlds
David M. de León
March 9, 2023

The Mother's Rage

Elena Ferrante and the torment of maternal love
Josh Cohen
February 28, 2023

On Anton Shammas's "Arabesques"

Revisiting the first major book in Hebrew by an Arab writer
Ratik Asokan
February 20, 2023
Books

Wong May's Poetry of Exile

In search of a language of unbelonging
Hao Guang Tse (谢皓光)
February 6, 2023

Charles Simic

Remembering a great poet and friend
Meghan O’Rourke
January 13, 2023

White Noise, New and Improved

How Noah Baumbach transformed a classic satire
Christine Smallwood
January 9, 2023

Eliot Among the Ruins

The Waste Land remains prophetic, but what did it foretell?
Langdon Hammer
December 12, 2022

On Emancipation

What Hollywood has done to a much-circulated image of American slavery
Lauren Michele Jackson
December 9, 2022

A Faceless Compass

Johannesburg’s haunted streets
Ivan Vladislavić
December 6, 2022

Bottle Torches

A fantasia on Nari Ward
Ishion Hutchinson
December 6, 2022