Web Essays
If You Build It, Will They Still Come?
Scaling the border wall
by Eric Wills | Monday, January 10, 2022
A Crash Course
The myth surrounding my beloved Aunt Myrtle only grew when she moved down South in the 1940s
by Kenneth A. McClane | Thursday, January 06, 2022
Joan Didion and the Magic of Grief
She went from cool customer to recorder of her own bereavement
by Sandra M. Gilbert | Monday, January 03, 2022
The Sondheim Way
Ambition, freedom, and the importance of innovation
by Wendy Smith | Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Why We Need the Humanities
The word itself contains the answer
by James A. W. Heffernan | Saturday, October 30, 2021
Back to School
A return to reading as a private and a public act
by Seth Lerer | Saturday, October 23, 2021
What Squid Game Is Really About
How decades of Korean trauma have spawned a pop culture phenomenon
by Jean Kim | Saturday, October 16, 2021
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