Special Features

Web exclusive: Julie Marie Wade’s essay on a childhood friend’s family and the ways they surprised her.

An essay on the intergenerational experience of eating and hunger issues, with photographs.

Mugabi Byenkya writes about envying writers who can submit to publications and opportunities he cannot.

Noah Berlatsky on envying other poets and also their translators, with an eye on the Jewish diaspora.

A craft essay by J. D. Harlock on well-designed, complex villains in fiction.

Colleen Rothman describes feeling envy of other novelists with her short-story collection out on submission to editors.

Adam Sobsey looks at different layers of envy in James Salter’s novel A Sport and a Pastime.

Lisa Low on how the experience of envy is related to time, especially during the process of revision.

In this folio to accompany issue 21.1, six writers explore jealousy and envy.

“I set out to photograph collections of objects in order to think about the bric-a-brac that populates my life.”