Nonfiction

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

Quest of the Avatars
Claire L. Evans on the history of the avatar...
Claire L. EvansSep 16, 2019
- Nonfiction
In Your Loss of Time I Found All of Myself Included: On Naja Marie Aidt’s “When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back”
Nathan Scott McNamara reviews Naja Marie Aidt’s “When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back,” translated from the Danish by Denise Newman.
Nathan Scott McNamaraSep 10, 2019
Against Active Forgetting: On John Hersey’s “The Algiers Motel Incident”
Danielle L. McGuire introduces “The Algiers Motel Incident” by John Hersey, republished after 50 years.
Danielle L. McGuireSep 10, 2019
- History
- Nonfiction
“Why Did You Survive?”: On Yevsey Tseytlin’s “Long Conversations in Anticipation of a Joyous Death”
Linda Kinstler listens in on “Long Conversations in Anticipation of a Joyous Death” by Yevsey Tseytlin, translated from the Russian by Alexander Rojavin.
Linda KinstlerSep 7, 2019
It Won’t Love You Back: An Interview with Maria Tumarkin
Mireille Juchau talks to Maria Tumarkin, author of “Axiomatic.”
Mireille JuchauSep 3, 2019
The Long Journey to the US Border
Human Rights Watch researcher Jonathan Pedneault discusses his time in Tijuana, Mexico, at the US Border.
Jonathan PedneaultAug 31, 2019
An Intimate Stranger: Traveling with Emmanuel Iduma
"A Stranger’s Pose" refuses any linear kind of development, a refusal with a political charge given how often the continent is tagged as “developing.”
Nathan Suhr-SytsmaAug 27, 2019
- Around the World
- Nonfiction
Writing Afterimage: Show Versus Tell and the Multimedia Narrative
Merrill Feitell on the form and function of multimedia narratives.
Merrill FeitellAug 20, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
- Nonfiction
Reading “The Armies of the Night” in an Age of Youth Protest
What Norman Mailer’s 1968 antiwar classic has to say about the amorphousness of contemporary protest.
Francis WadeAug 12, 2019
An Actor Lost in the Background
Andrew Fedorov considers the legacy of prolific Hollywood extra Robert G. Haines.
Andrew FedorovAug 9, 2019
- Film
- Nonfiction
The Parents of Curious George
Margret and H. A. Rey were the reluctant parents of a cartoon ape-child.
Yuliya KomskaJul 29, 2019
- Nonfiction
- Young Adult & Children’s Literature
My Late Lunch with Oliver Sacks
A conversation in Elysium — or, rather, the West Village — with the late Oliver Sacks.
Jay NeugeborenJul 25, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
- Nonfiction