Nonfiction

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

How to Live Through the Apocalypse
Barbara Kiser extols two remarkable books offering two very different ways of surviving our perfect storm of crises.
Barbara KiserSep 28, 2020
The Water, the Grief
I couldn’t fly home to say goodbye to my grandmother. I was too late. The pandemic had taken root on the East Coast.
Eileen Elizabeth WaggonerSep 27, 2020
- Nonfiction
Meeting “Your Own Inner Middle Schooler”: A Conversation with Judith Warner
Devorah Heitner speaks with Judith Warner about her new book, “And Then They Stopped Talking to Me: Making Sense of Middle School.”
Devorah HeitnerSep 25, 2020
- Education
- Nonfiction
At Home in the Unseen World
Psychiatrist and historian George Makari remembers his father, Jack Makari, a pioneer of cancer immunology and microbiology.
George MakariSep 14, 2020
- Nonfiction
- Science & Technology
Memory in Crisis: On Judith Schalansky’s “An Inventory of Losses”
A catalog of lost objects raises questions about history and memory in our age of mass protest.
Fiona BellSep 13, 2020
4 January 1960
Raymond Queneau on the death of Albert Camus.
Chris Clarke, Raymond QueneauSep 10, 2020
- Around the World
- Nonfiction
Albert Camus, Patron Saint of the Sticks
Camus’s final, unfinished novel evokes a lost Algerian homeland.
Aaron PeckSep 10, 2020
My Identity: Stealing What’s Mine
We bury the bubbling tide of rage that we know we’re entitled to feel, because we, unlike so many others, are at risk whenever we express that rage.
Caleb GayleSep 7, 2020
Refugee Tales: A Conversation with Juan Pablo Villalobos
Paulo Lemos Horta talks to writer Juan Pablo Villalobos about his latest book, "The Other Side."
Paulo Lemos HortaAug 11, 2020
- Nonfiction
- Politics
In the Belly of the Beast: How the Whale Encapsulates Modern Ecology
Ferris Jabr plumbs the depths of “Fathoms: The World in the Whale,” the new book by Rebecca Giggs.
Ferris JabrAug 5, 2020
Showdown at the Translation Saloon: On Lawrence Venuti’s “Contra Instrumentalism: A Translation Polemic”
Jan Steyn takes on “Contra Instrumentalism: A Translation Polemic” by Lawrence Venuti.
Jan SteynAug 2, 2020
Letter from Marseille
A quarantine bulletin from the South of France.
Katie Shireen AssefJul 13, 2020
- Around the World
- Nonfiction