Highlights (and lowlights) from Lucy Ellmann’s bizarre Twitter “essay” about crap.

Highlights (and lowlights) from Lucy Ellmann’s bizarre Twitter “essay” about crap.

By Jonny Diamond | July 6, 2021

Rachel Kushner: Everything Behind You Is Part of Your Present Tense

Rachel Kushner: Everything Behind You Is Part of Your Present Tense

This Week from the Thresholds Podcast with Jordan Kisner

By Thresholds | May 12, 2021

Deborah Lindsay Williams on Asking Better Questions About the Status Quo

Deborah Lindsay Williams on Asking Better Questions About the Status Quo

This Week from The Common Podcast

By The Common | May 7, 2021

Phillip Lopate Considers America’s Post-WWII Essay Boom

Phillip Lopate Considers America’s Post-WWII Essay Boom

On the Political, Social, and Literary Forces That Led to a Proliferation of the Genre

By Phillip Lopate | April 5, 2021

On the Case for Meanness in Fiction

On the Case for Meanness in Fiction

Brock Clarke: What Makes a Good Person Doesn’t Usually Make for a Good Story

By Brock Clarke | March 17, 2021

Shayla Lawson Performs Her Essay “Black Lives Matter, Yard Signs Matter”

Shayla Lawson Performs Her Essay “Black Lives Matter, Yard Signs Matter”

On Storybound, Our Radio-Theater Podcast

By Storybound | February 9, 2021

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Soraya Nadia McDonald Reads Her Essay ‘Wandering in Search of Wakanda’

By Storybound | February 2, 2021

5 Audiobook Essay Collections Ideally Suited to Your Quarantine Walks

By James Tate Hill | January 28, 2021

How Honest is Too Honest? 6 Books That Straddle That Line

By Michael Leviton | January 15, 2021

How to Render Epiphanies in Nonfiction Without Getting Didactic

How to Render Epiphanies in Nonfiction Without Getting Didactic

Randon Billings Noble Considers Moments of Clarity Between the Lines

By Randon Billings Noble | January 4, 2021

Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Gifts of Mother Earth

Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Gifts of Mother Earth

This Week From the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | December 28, 2020

On the Weird Little Essays That Inspired <em>A Christmas Story</em>

On the Weird Little Essays That Inspired A Christmas Story

The Literary Disco Crew Discusses Jean Shepherd's In God We Trust

By Literary Disco | December 28, 2020

What Makes a Great <br>American Essay?

What Makes a Great
American Essay?

Talking to Phillip Lopate About Thwarted Expectations, Emerson, and the 21st-Century Essay Boom

By Phillip Lopate | November 17, 2020

Here's some of the best online quarantine writing from the last few months.

Here's some of the best online quarantine writing from the last few months.

By Walker Caplan | November 11, 2020

A Brief History of the Political Essay

A Brief History of the Political Essay

From Swift to Woolf, David Bromwich Considers an Evolving Genre

By David Bromwich | October 22, 2020

Claire Messud in Praise of the Essays That Dwell in Uncertainty

Claire Messud in Praise of the Essays That Dwell in Uncertainty

The Author of Kant's Little Prussian Head Recommends Five Essential Collections

By Claire Messud | October 13, 2020

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