essays

essays

Discussing On Immunity: An Inoculation with Eula Biss

by Jeffery Gleaves, on October 1, 2014

Eula Biss discusses vaccinations, motherhood, and metaphors

Jeff Sharlet on Radiant Truths

by Sam Kestenbaum, on June 30, 2014

Jeff Sharlet on his collection of essential dispatches, reports, confessions, and other essays on American belief

The Empathy Exams: Essays

by Jeffery Gleaves, on March 28, 2014

Leslie Jamison on empathy in craft and in life

American Scolder

by John Stuart Mill,

From annotations written by John Stuart Mill on his personal copies of the first editions of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Essays, which were published in two volumes, in 1841 and 1844.…

Darling: A Conversation with Richard Rodriguez

by Emily Stokes, on October 24, 2013

Richard Rodriguez on the essay as biography of an idea, the relationship between gay men’s liberation and women’s liberation, and the writerly impulse to give away secrets