Nonfiction Archive
If Marcel Marceau as a performer and a French man was cheeky, brilliant, and impossible, it seems no accident the title of Wen's book-length essay is what it is.
According to Adam Alter, 70 percent of office emails are read within six seconds of arrival.
Who says a good beach read can’t also be a book that packs some punch? Here are four of this summer’s best.
Indeed, the theme of moving on—but not necessarily past—tragedy is her central message here.
Food choices, she argues, are not just an animal rights question, but one embodying environmental, labor, and fair trade concerns.
A staff writer for The New Yorker, Ariel Levy describes her beat as “women who are too much.
For Anna Journey, it starts at the University of Houston, during the last year of her PhD program. Away in Richmond, Virginia, for a literary conference arranged by a close friend and mentor, Journey begins the affair that will end her seven-year relationship.
Scratch, a collection of interviews and essays from writers spanning the gamut of genre, commercial success, race, gender, and class, boasts pieces from Alexander Chee, Roxane Gay, Yiyun Li, Porochista Khakpour, and Jonathan Franzen. Topics range from the gritty details of checks and debts to a philosophical pondering of
In 1986, at the age of twenty, without saying goodbye to anybody (and ignoring the Tao’s declaration that, “the truly kind leave no one”), Knight entered the woods of central Maine and never looked back.
Abandon me. The title is a straight-faced challenge. To her lover who she fears will. To two fathers who already have. To the reader who’s embarking on this story with her. Abandon me. Do the worst thing to me I can imagine. And I will save myself with story.