‘Don’t Call Me a Saint’

In her lifetime, Dorothy Day rejected canonization for herself. Now revived, this bad idea would only diminish the great founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.

January 26, 2022

A True Crime

After murder came with shocking suddenness to my small town, I started questioning the storytelling ethics of a genre in which I myself had a stake.

January 22, 2022

Language Is the Game in ‘Ted Lasso’

Whitman and Joyce may seem unlikely references for a sports sitcom—unless we’ve been reading the show all wrong.

January 19, 2022

Turning Stories Upside Down

“I think it’s a marvelous time to be a young reader—there’s so much that’s inventive and wild and brainy and great.”

January 22, 2022

Skytrain to Stratford-upon-Avon

“I sometimes imagine a future in which Shakespeare’s plays have lost their edge, no longer speak to us. That won’t be in my lifetime.”

January 15, 2022

Late Romanticism

“Many of my closest friends are poets, and it seems like a pretty serious affliction.”

January 8, 2022

Marie Antoinette: Why Was She So Hated?

How Marie Antoinette tried to save the monarchy.

November 5, 2020 issue

A Moral Witness

Martha Gellhorn’s letters to her lovers and intimate friends involve a remarkable feat of reportage on the war within Gellhorn herself

October 8, 2020 issue

Young Woman from the Provinces

Benjamin Moser’s Sontag: Her Life and Work

February 27, 2020 issue