Nonfiction

Essays

When Does a Divorce Begin?

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

Vanity Fair’s Heyday

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

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
Essays

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
Essays

The Unfolding of Time in Paint

My encounters with Joan Mitchell's panels
Rachel Cohen

Browse

Nonfiction

Books

Charles Simic

Stephen Yenser
April 1, 2002
From the Archives

Lincoln and Whitman as Representative Americans

David Bromwich
April 1, 2002
From the Archives

Ibsen the Pioneer

Stella Adler
April 1, 1999
From the Archives

The Mask of Art

Edmund White
April 1, 1999
From the Archives

An Open Book

Edmund White
July 1, 1997
From the Archives

Secret Maps

Holly Wright's Photographs of Hands
Charles Simic
October 1, 1996
From the Archives

The Burning Book: Genet and Cocteau

Edmund White
October 1, 1993
From The Archives

Imagining Black Men: The Politics of Cultural Identity

Hazel V. Carby
July 1, 1992
Black and white photo of light coming through windows in the apse of San Vitale in Ravenna with mosaics. Courtesy N.P. Sullo.
Essays

Days of 1952

On the rapture of experiencing art in solitude
James Merrill
April 1, 1992
From the Archives

Fiction in Review

Marilynne Robinson
April 1, 1992