In her third essay collection, the poet and critic Elisa Gabbert celebrates literature and life through a voracious engagement with the world. By Lily Meyer Lily Meyer is a writer, critic and ...

I was 16 years old when I graduated high school and moved to New York to model. I knew I would be invited into rooms with brilliant, older people, and I was both curious and self-conscious—I wanted to ...

These days, it seems like everyone has an opinion on everything. But what makes an opinion worth considering? Writer Roxane Gay has an idea. ROXANE GAY: Is the opinion well-articulated? Is the ...

Her distinctive prose and sharp eye were tuned to an outsider’s frequency, telling us about ourselves in essays that are almost reflexively skeptical. Here’s where to start. Credit...John Bryson/Getty ...

About eight years ago, author Jen Soriano sat down to outline a book. She knew the broad strokes of what she hoped to write about: pain, disability, mental illness, generational trauma. But as Soriano ...

The essay is an endangered form. In a hot take/"too long; didn't read" era dominated by algorithmic brevity and the ceaseless churn of instant commentary, the meditative essay is increasingly pushed ...