Patience
Published in The Atlantic in 1880
The Brutal Reality of Life in America’s Most Notorious Jail
I’ve been locked up in maximum-security prisons for two decades. My time on Rikers Island was worse.
Woman in Labor
A poem for Sunday
How Do You Adapt a Book Into a TV Show?
On the challenges of translating the page to the screen: Your weekly guide to the best in books
When Truman Capote’s Lies Caught Up With Him
The author of In Cold Blood played fast and loose with the facts.
He’s Tweeting for His Life
Hanif Kureishi’s tweets from his sickbed are a bravura performance that is no performance at all.
The Bug
A poem for Wednesday
When Good Pain Turns Into Bad Pain
Lauren Fleshman’s memoir, Good for a Girl, recalls her life as a runner—and the culture she says the sport needs to change.
The Calamitous Lies of Adulthood
Netflix’s new adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s 2020 novel is a striking, moody show about the contours of deceit.
She Never Meant to Write a Memoir
Janet Malcolm’s autobiography presents an argument about the fundamental murkiness of autobiography itself.
Today I Love Being Alive
A poem for Sunday
How It Feels to Lose a Utopia
Stories about idyllic worlds that have disappeared can be the best reminders of the beauty that is still in our reach: Your weekly guide to the best in books
Seven Books About How Homes Shape Our Life
Dwellings are loaded with meaning for the people—and characters—who inhabit them.
A Society That Can’t Get Enough of Work
A satirical 1883 pamphlet about workers who won’t quit has eerie resonance today.
All the Pretty Republicans
If Cormac McCarthy interpreted the humiliations of Kevin McCarthy
For the Child(ren) I Cannot Carry
A poem for Sunday
The Writer’s Most Sacred Relationship
Creative partnerships can be a challenge for fragile egos—but they also provide a lifeline in difficult times.
A New Year Doesn’t Call for a New You
The drive to entirely reinvent ourselves is never stronger than it is in January.
A Civil War Over Semicolons
The biographer Robert Caro and his editor, Robert Gottlieb, have been arguing with each other for 50 years.
Another White Male Writer
A poem for Wednesday
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