Phillip Lopate

Phillip Lopate is director of Columbia University's nonfiction program, editor of The Art of the Personal Essay, and author of Against Joie de Vivre, Portrait of My Body, and To Show and to Tell, among other books.

Memories of Jazz Nights

You needed stamina, but the payoff was great

By Phillip Lopate | Friday February 3, 2017

Sadness, Irony, and Equilibrium

When art turns blue

By Phillip Lopate | Friday January 27, 2017

Liking La La Land and Jackie

The perversity of appreciation

By Phillip Lopate | Friday January 20, 2017

The Big Schlep

Trapped in a world of women (and cats)

By Phillip Lopate | Friday January 13, 2017

The Complex Art of Second-Guessing

Maybe the mistakes weren’t Hillary’s, after all

By Phillip Lopate | Friday January 6, 2017

Father-In-Law

The power of disapproval

By Phillip Lopate | Friday December 23, 2016

The Agnes Martin Retrospective

What to make of all those fussy graphite lines?

By Phillip Lopate | Friday December 16, 2016

Skyping Brazil

On the pleasure of a virtual dissertation defense

By Phillip Lopate | Friday December 9, 2016

The Paradox of Urban Density

The good, the bad, and the ugly

By Phillip Lopate | Friday December 2, 2016

Reflections after the Election

Counting the worry beads

By Phillip Lopate | Friday November 18, 2016

Tennis, Anyone?

By Phillip Lopate | Friday June 30, 2017

Memories of Jazz Nights

By Phillip Lopate | Friday June 23, 2017

Valentines Past

By Phillip Lopate | Friday June 16, 2017

On the Death of Friendship

By Phillip Lopate | Friday June 2, 2017

On Keeping a Blog

By Phillip Lopate | Friday May 26, 2017

A Visit to Harvard

By Phillip Lopate | Friday May 19, 2017

Remembering Cynthia Macdonald

By Phillip Lopate | Thursday May 11, 2017

Marrying a Widow

By Phillip Lopate | Friday May 5, 2017

Listening to Dinah

By Phillip Lopate | Friday April 21, 2017

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