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

Politics and Technology

Edward T. Chase
April 1, 1963
From the Archives

Outside Faction

Thom Gunn
June 1, 1961
From the Archives

Voices of Their Own

Thom Gunn
June 1, 1960
From the Archives

Excellence and Variety

Thom Gunn
January 1, 1960
From the Archives

Prelude to Independence

Dean Acheson
July 1, 1959
From the Archives

Poetry as Written

Thom Gunn
January 1, 1959
An old photograph of a churchyard cemetery. Courtesy The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Essays

A Journal of the Plague

The 1918 Influenza
Francis Russell
December 1, 1958
From the Archives

The First Psychoanalyst

Erik H. Erikson
August 1, 1956
From the Archives

Legislative-Executive Relations

Dean Acheson
June 1, 1956
From the Archives

G.B.S.—Mankind’s Friend

Thomas Mann
March 1, 1951