Featured Stories
Lore Segal’s Stubborn Optimism
In her life and work, she moved through the world with a disarming blend of youthful curiosity and daring intelligence.
Lynne Tillman Breaks the Rules
Mothercare, a fascinating and sometimes fraught experiment with memoir, finds the author testing the limits of personal writing.
Mixed Blessings
Harvesting wheat in California's warming climate, a writer considers what’s sacred.
More Writing
Mention: My Dinner with André, The Drift
Watch Neighbors Connect in “Shelter in Place,” The New Yorker
Rona Jaffe’s “The Best of Everything” Is Still One of Our Sharpest Portraits of Female Desire, The New Yorker
Alison Roman’s “Nothing Fancy” and the Art of the Unpretentious Dinner Party, The New Yorker
A Bot That Captures the Ambivalence of Human Emotion, The New Yorker
Why the Polar Bear Is an Indisputable Image of Climate Change, The New Yorker
Weyes Blood’s “Titanic Rising” Is a Lush, Grieving Soundtrack to Climate Change, The New Yorker
Talk of the Town: Spoken-Word Poetry’s Dynamic Duo, The New Yorker
A Deliberately Wonky Sense of Morality: On Andrew Martin’s Debut Novel, Early Work, Guernica
Divining the Secrets of Human Connection, Hazlitt
More of Less: On Sarah Manguso’s 300 Arguments, The Nation
Krista Tippett: Speaking of Faith, The Nation