Clair Wills

Learning to Grieve

A poet and a psychologist consider the necessity of mourning our dead.

Say Something Back and Time Lived, Without Its Flow

by Denise Riley, with an afterword by Max Porter

The Anatomy of Grief

by Dorothy P. Holinger

November 19, 2020 issue

Sonia Delaunay: Danseuse, deuxieme version, 1916

Stepping Out

The joy of dancing as a follower is to listen for the barely said—to interpret signs almost before they have been given, to read messages in the moment they are being sent.

August 20, 2020 issue

A Woman’s Performance

Actress

by Anne Enright

No Authority: Writings from the Laureateship

by Anne Enright

July 2, 2020 issue

Ghost Story

On ‘The Mirror and the Light,’ the third volume in Hilary Mantel’s life of Thomas Cromwell

The Mirror and the Light

by Hilary Mantel

May 14, 2020 issue

‘Joy’; from the Lombardy edition of the Taqwim as-Sihha, an eleventh-century medical treatise by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad, circa 1390

Love in Plague Time

‘To Calais, in Ordinary Time’ by James Meek and ‘The Corner That Held Them’ by Sylvia Townsend Warner

To Calais, in Ordinary Time

by James Meek

The Corner That Held Them

by Sylvia Townsend Warner

January 16, 2020 issue

The Truth Alone

Coventry: Essays

by Rachel Cusk

September 26, 2019 issue

Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1965; photograph by Philip Jones Griffiths

The Unnameable

Milkman

by Anna Burns

Little Constructions

by Anna Burns

No Bones

by Anna Burns

March 21, 2019 issue

Prodigal Fathers

Colm Tóibín’s ‘Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce’

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

by Colm Tóibín

December 20, 2018 issue

Giovanni Bellini: Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child, early 1460s

Family Secrets

August 16, 2018 issue