Featured Stories
Lynne Tillman Breaks the Rules
Mothercare, a fascinating and sometimes fraught experiment with memoir, finds the author testing the limits of personal writing.
Spoken-Word Poetry’s Dynamic Duo
At a recent, sold-out show, Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye performed poems about divorce, long-distance relationships, and whale hearts.
Mixed Blessings
Harvesting wheat in California's warming climate, a writer considers what’s sacred.
More Writing
Issue 3 Mentions: My Dinner with André, The Drift, February 3, 2021
Watch Neighbors Connect in “Shelter in Place,” The New Yorker, May 6, 2020
Rona Jaffe’s “The Best of Everything” Is Still One of Our Sharpest Portraits of Female Desire, The New Yorker, Feb. 10, 2020
Alison Roman’s “Nothing Fancy” and the Art of the Unpretentious Dinner Party, The New Yorker, Nov. 28, 2019
A Bot That Captures the Ambivalence of Human Emotion, The New Yorker, Sept. 4, 2019
Why the Polar Bear Is an Indisputable Image of Climate Change, The New Yorker, June 23, 2019
Weyes Blood’s “Titanic Rising” Is a Lush, Grieving Soundtrack to Climate Change, The New Yorker, May 31, 2019
A Deliberately Wonky Sense of Morality: On Andrew Martin’s Debut Novel, Early Work, Guernica, Oct. 5, 2018
Divining the Secrets of Human Connection, Hazlitt, Mar. 8, 2018
More of Less: On Sarah Manguso’s 300 Arguments, The Nation, Mar. 16, 2017
Krista Tippett: Speaking of Faith, The Nation, Aug. 19, 2017