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

From the Archives

Revisionists Revised

Louis Menand
October 1, 1984
From the Archives

A Memoir of George Eliot

Soph’ia V. Kovalevskaia,
translated by Miriam Haskell Berlin
July 1, 1984
From the Archives

The Thought of Movies

Stanley Cavell
January 1, 1983
From the Archives

Mallarmé and Bataille

Richard Howard
October 1, 1982
From the Archives

The Future of Democracy

Richard J. Barnet
September 1, 1982
From the Archives

Frederick Douglass and the Language of the Self

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
July 1, 1981
From the Archives

Psychiatric Help 5¢: Psychoanalysis and the Psychotherapies of Liberation

Fred Bloom
and
Alice Bloom
April 1, 1979
From the Archives

Byron and Mr. Briggs

With an introduction by Edward A. Hungerford
Virginia Woolf
March 1, 1979
From the Archives

Pynchon as Satirist: To Write, To Mean

Alfred Mac Adam
June 1, 1978
An abstract print by Jacob van Heemskerck.
Essays

Naming, Being, and Black Experience

Yale’s first Black professor on the presence or absence of names, their status and their scope.
Michael G. Cooke
December 1, 1977