• Longform

    Actors

    Paul Giamatti,
    This One’s For You: In Praise of the King of Pathos

    Olivia Rutigliano on the Actor Who Has Never Once Phoned in a Performance

     
    By Olivia Rutigliano  February 2, 2024
    Memoir

    The Road to Oliver Sacks’

    By Lawrence Weschler  August 13, 2019
    Journalism

    How John Hersey Revealed the Horrors of the Atomic Bomb to the US

    By Jeremy Treglown  April 23, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    The Wrong Kind of Redemption: A Civil War That Never Ended

    By Philip Dray  April 8, 2019
    Excerpts

    An Account of the Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard by the Police Officer, Lynwood Shull

    By Richard Gergel  January 22, 2019
    Essay

    The Other South of France: My Year(s) in the Pyrenees

    By Laurence de Looze  October 22, 2018
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Essay

    The Mysterious Case of a Mongolian Murder That Might Have Been…

    By Leonid Yuzefovich  September 20, 2018
    Essay

    After the Storm: On the Artist’s Life in Puerto Rico, Post-Maria

    By Jennifer Acker  September 13, 2018
    Poets

    New Poetry by Indigenous Women

    By Literary Hub  August 15, 2018
    Indian Politics

    Nationalism, Exclusionary Politics, and the Fate of Kashmir Under Modi’s India

    Rohini Mohan and Praveen Donthi Talk to V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell on Fiction/Non/Fiction

    By Fiction Non Fiction  January 16, 2020
    Deep Dive

    How Prince Helped Me Feel Seen

    By James Tate Hill  June 7, 2018
    Feature

    Garry Winogrand’s Photographs Contain Entire Novels

    By Geoff Dyer  April 25, 2018
    Essay

    In Sarajevo, a Monument to Childhood Disrupted by War

    By Dan Sheehan  April 18, 2018
    Essay

     We’ll Always Have Paris: My Time in Texas with Sam Shepard’s Notebooks

    On a Big Sky Road Trip Into the Heart of America

    By Madelaine Lucas  April 12, 2018
    Excerpts

    On Blood, Birth, and the Talismanic Power of Red Lipstick

    By Jessica Friedmann  April 10, 2018
    Excerpts

    Gay, Muslim, Refugee: On Making a Life in Trump’s America

    By Aleksandar Hemon  April 9, 2018
    Essay

    On the Anxiety of the Chronically Early

    By Rachel Z. Arndt  April 2, 2018
    Feature

    How John J. Lennon Became a Prison Journalist—From the Inside

    “There’s Plenty of Story Around Me, and Within Me"

    By Daniel A. Gross  April 2, 2018
    Art

    Lost in Berlin, and in the Wordless Writing of Mirtha Dermisache

    By J. Mae Barizo  March 23, 2018
    Essay

    How to Read Caves

    By Susan Harlan  January 19, 2018
    Essay

    Can an Artist Help Captive Elephants Win Legal Personhood?

    By Julia Cooke  December 5, 2017
    Feature

    Forgiving the Unforgivable: Geronimo’s Descendants Seek to Salve Generational Trauma

    Traveling to the Heart of Mexico for a Ceremonia del Perdón

    By Anna Badkhen  November 21, 2017
    Excerpts

    How Does It Feel to Die in a Tsunami?

    By Richard Lloyd Parry  November 14, 2017
    Feature

    I Delivered Donald Trump’s 2007 Tax Returns

    By Henry Kogan  November 6, 2017
    Essay

    What Future is There for America’s Desert Cities?

    By Saritha Ramakrishna  July 25, 2018
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