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.

The Missing Friend

An attachment that will not die

By Phillip Lopate | Friday September 2, 2016

Selling My Papers

A life’s work out the door

By Phillip Lopate | Friday August 19, 2016

Confronting the Inevitable Subject

A few hundred words, and then I’m done

By Phillip Lopate | Friday August 12, 2016

Remembering Abbas Kiarostami

The great filmmaker was cool, cosmopolitan, and lonely

By Phillip Lopate | Friday August 5, 2016

On to Nanjing

In a land of paradox

By Phillip Lopate | Friday July 29, 2016

Still in Shanghai

Getting personal—or not

By Phillip Lopate | Friday July 22, 2016

Letter from Shanghai

The cityscape of the future—and the present

By Phillip Lopate | Friday July 15, 2016

On Women Artists

Two recent films

By Phillip Lopate | Friday July 8, 2016

The Dead of Summer

What to do on this sweltering day …

By Phillip Lopate | Friday July 1, 2016

English Women Novelists

Catching up

By Phillip Lopate | Friday June 24, 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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