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

Essays

The Broken Cadillac

When you wish you could refuse an inheritance
Jennifer Stock
March 11, 2025
Essays

The Comforts of Geological Time

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

Zora Neale Hurston’s Rediscovered Novel

A new publication obscures the canonical writer
Tiana Reid
March 11, 2025
Trump meets with Zelensky in the Oval Office on February 28, 2025. They sit on upholstered yellow chairs.
Books

Chaos Agent in Chief

What Michael Wolff’s Trump quartet tells us about the next four years
James Surowiecki
March 4, 2025
A movie still of Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce at dusk in “The Brutalist”
Film

America the Brutal

Why The Brutalist isn’t really about architecture
Christopher Hawthorne
February 18, 2025
Objects of Desire

A Dingy White Mug

Holding on to my Nashville childhood
Emily Bernard
February 11, 2025
Black-and-white photo of R.E.M.’s band members standing in a backstage hallway
Books

The Kings of College Radio

What happened when R.E.M. went mainstream
Mina Tavakoli
February 5, 2025
Black-and-white yearbook photo showing David Lynch and Bill Frazier sitting with a group of friends at a fraternity party.
Tribute

Fourteen Memories of David Lynch

My dad remembers the filmmaker as a young artist and fraternity brother
Will Frazier
January 30, 2025
The Moment

Memecoins, Monologues, and Sharpies

A diary of Trump’s inauguration week
James Surowiecki
January 24, 2025
Most-Read Prose White Text on a Plum-Colored Background
From the Editors

Our Most-Read Prose of 2024

December 17, 2024