Since 2009, when Speaking in Tongues was first published, I’ve read it probably about 20 times. Zadie Smith’s essays […]
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In my mind Susan Orlean and Malcolm Gladwell are the power couple of narrative nonfiction. I am not […]
Cynthia Ozick’s A Drugstore in Winter Eudora Welty’s A Sweet Devouring I didn’t intend to review two essays for […]
This week, we’re launching the Considering series, a place to focus on one particularly amazing essay or short […]
This post was submitted by Dan Toller, of the excellent The Electric Typewriter archive. Thanks, Dan! I saw Fear […]
At the tender age of 22, Joan Didion won a Vogue essay contest. It was 1956, decades before […]
“Shakespear’s Consort” depicts what Anne Hathaway may have looked like, drawn by Sir Nathaniel Curzon in 1708, and appears […]