We’re away until January 4, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2020. Enjoy your holiday! Paulina Olowska, Crossword Puzzle with Lady in…
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Category: Literature
Staff Picks: Heaven, Hearing Trumpets, and Hong Sang-soo
Still from Hong Sang-soo’s Woman Is the Future of Man. Photo courtesy of MUBI. I’m a big fan of the films of Hong Sang-soo, and…
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Inside the Order Is Always Something Wild
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Tie the Temptress to the Trojan, 2018. Collection of Michael Bertrand, Toronto. © Courtesy of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. We stand before each other and…
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Almost Eighty
In the summer of 2011, three months before her eightieth birthday, the playwright Adrienne Kennedy reflected on her life in the unpublished essay “Almost Eighty.”…
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On Jean Valentine
Jean Valentine (photo: Tyler Flynn Dorholt) What I know about change, I’ve learned from the line break. Never ran this hard through the valley /…
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Ways to Open a Door: An Interview with Destiny Birdsong
The spectacular present-day emergencies have inspired calls for art that responds to the moment, that speaks to the now, that lays claim to a particular…
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The Fabulous Forgotten Life of Vita Sackville-West
We’re away until January 4, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2020. Enjoy your holiday! Vita Sackville-West How preposterous is it that…
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Beatlemania in Yugoslavia
Photo: United Press International. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The most popular boy in my freshman class in high school was a certain Zoran. He…
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Staff Picks: Marriage, Martinis, and Mortality
Sigrid Nunez. Photo: © Marion Ettlinger. A candid attitude about death and sincere empathy for grief are wrongly put at odds: to speak with frankness…
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My Gender Is Masha Gessen
Masha Gessen at her apartment in Moscow in the early nineties © Igor Stomakhin Masha Gessen is a bilingual writer, activist, and keen observer of—actually,…
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