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August 12, 2022
Rachel Connolly
The Crane Wife’s Questionable Life Lessons
CJ Hauser’s essay on an ill-fated love went viral. But there’s more than one way to see the story.
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 10, 2019
Jennifer Wilson
Vladimir Nabokov’s Fighting Spirit
A new essay collection shows his opposition to Cold War politics in literature.
July 30, 2019
Hannah Rosefield
The Voice of a Microgeneration
How Jia Tolentino’s incisive, capacious essays became essential reading.
October 16, 2018
Jedediah Britton-Purdy
George Scialabba, Radical Democrat
A new collection of far-sighted essays dissects the pathologies of the present moment.
May 16, 2018
Jo Livingstone
The Big, Bad Truth of Michelle Tea
The writer's new essay collection "Against Memoir" brings the unwritten queer past to the light.
March 16, 2018
Calum Marsh
Martin Amis Makes the Case for Snobbery
The essays in “The Rub of Time” defend careful thought and use of language.
February 20, 2018
Hermione Hoby
Zadie Smith’s Book of Essays Explores What It Means to Be Human
The varieties of individuality in “Feel Free”

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