The Queen of Oversharing
The personal essay may be over—but Joyce Maynard isn’t.
Book Review
The Identity Crisis of an American Abroad
Making sense of one’s home country from afar
Why Liberalism Disappoints
Walter Lippmann, Randolph Bourne, and the enduring debate over the power of idealism
How Women Lived Under Soviet Rule
In collecting and sharing their testimonies, the Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich took on the role of “a witness to witnesses who usually go unheard.”
The Whitest Music Ever
Prog rock was audacious, innovative—and awful.
The Architect of the Radical Right
How the Nobel Prize–winning economist James M. Buchanan shaped today’s antigovernment politics
Arundhati Roy’s Fascinating Mess
Being an activist and an artist is trickier than it sounds.
A Primal and Eccentric Family Drama
Michael Frank’s sharp memoir about an unusual upbringing
Turning Pain Into Art
How the poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell became each other’s tragic muses
Poet on the Edge
Indiana-born, Twitter-savvy, and Millennially mischievous, Patricia Lockwood taps into the temper of the times.