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Memoir

Scenes from Childhood

The unseen world of the great playwright
Adrienne Kennedy
March 11, 2025
Essays

A Unified Theory of the Handbag

Was an accessory the secret to evolution?
Audrey Wollen
March 11, 2025
Essays

The Comforts of Geological Time

How to grieve when you don’t know how
Edmée Lepercq
March 11, 2025
Essays

The Broken Cadillac

When you wish you could refuse an inheritance
Jennifer Stock
March 11, 2025
From the Archives

Walden—1954

E. B. White
September 1, 1954
Essays

The Ragpicker's Way

Among scraps and ruins, an artist gathers a different kind of archive
Edmund de Waal
May 13, 2025
Objects of Desire

Rubber Bands

How can we extend love?
Catherine Barnett
May 6, 2025
Black and white photograph of lecture hall desks in a semi-circle
The Moment

A View from Here

Trump's attacks on higher education and the work of a little magazine
Meghan O’Rourke
April 23, 2025
The Moment

The Post-Francis Church

Catholicism has long wrestled with tradition and modernity. Will the late pope’s legacy offer a way forward?
Jack Hanson
April 29, 2025
A pair of weathered wood doors with peeling orange paint
Objects of Desire

Doorknobs

I never installed them. What doors could they have opened?
Katie Kitamura
June 9, 2025