In Susanna Forrest’s Écuyères series, she unearths the lost stories of the transgressive horsewomen of turn-of-the-century Paris. Céleste Mogador as a countess (wikimedia commons) My horse carried…
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We Didn’t Have a Chance to Say Goodbye
Sabrina Orah Mark’s column, Happily, focuses on fairy tales and motherhood. The Plague Doctor (Photo: Sabrina Orah Mark) “I can’t find my plague doctor.”…
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Eccentricity as Feminism
Leonora Carrington. Photo: Emerico “Chiki” Weisz. Courtesy of New York Review Books. The first time I read Leonora Carrington’s The Hearing Trumpet, I knew nothing…
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Being Reckless: An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard
Read an excerpt from In the Land of the Cyclops here. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s newest release, In the Land of the Cyclops, is a collection of…
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On One-On-One
In his new column, Notes on Hoops, Hanif Abdurraqib revisits the golden age of basketball movies, shot by shot. Still from Love & Basketball ©…
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Insane Places
On Leonora Carrington’s The Hearing Trumpet. In 1973, the psychologist David Rosenhan published a paper in the journal Science called “On Being Sane in Insane…
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The Year of Grinding Teeth
Photo: © JRP Studio / Adobe Stock. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. —Matthew 8:12 I woke up with dried blood on my…
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Home
Photo: © Abi Olayiwola / Adobe Stock. Let me show you my home. It is the subterranean water body of my mother. I drift in…
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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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