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April 1, 2020
Matt Farwell
The Paranoid Style of America in a Pandemic
On canceled weddings, Tom Clancy’s clairvoyance, and combat veterans on high alert
December 19, 2016
Jeet Heer
In Defense of the Twitter Essay
Some find it obnoxious, but threading tweets is a unique writing form that creates vibrant, democratic conversations.
June 27, 2016
MagazineSuki Kim
The Reluctant Memoirist
An investigative journalist returns from an undercover mission in North Korea—only to face her critics.
August 11, 2015
Damian Lanigan
Music From a Farther Room
Celebrating 100 years of “Prufrock”
April 19, 2015
William Giraldi
Object Lesson
Why we need physical books
October 2, 2014
Michelle Orange
What the Anti-Vaxxer Movement Teaches Us About the Ebola Crisis
Exploring the power and powerlessness of innoculation
September 30, 2014
Jason Guriel
The 'Best American' Series Is the Ditzy Cheerleader for American Writing
September 19, 2014
Ariel Dorfman
What Robert Burns Would Have Made of Scottish Independence
Robert Burns helped to forge a pride of place that has become a reservoir of national identity
September 13, 2014
Jennifer Homans
Charles James Was an Artist—But Don't Hang His Works in a Museum
June 18, 2014
Mark Lilla
The Truth About Our Libertarian Age
Why the dogma of democracy doesn't always make the world better
May 30, 2014
Will Self
I Don’t Miss Smoking. But I Miss Smoke
Its chiffon convolutions and tulle thunderheads made perfectly dull places seem excitingly mysterious.
February 11, 2014
Paul Berman
The True Story of America's First Black Female Slave Novelist
The woman behind 'The Bondwoman's Narrative'
October 5, 2013
Jennifer Homans
The Crisis in Contemporary Ballet
How emotion left dance
October 4, 2013
Helen Vendler
My Memories of Seamus Heaney
July 1, 2013
Mikhail Shishkin
Poets and Czars
From Pushkin to Putin: the sad tale of democracy in Russia
March 2, 2013
Paul Berman
The Strange Power of Les Mis, the Book
Victor Hugo's Hard-nosed Melodrama
February 18, 2013
Adam Kirsch
The New Essayists, or the Decline of a Form?
David Sedaris and a literary version of reality TV
August 7, 1989
Czeslaw Milosz
The Telltale Scar
What is Central Europe?
July 19, 1975
Roger Rosenblatt
Roger Rosenblatt Remembers His Father

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