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Rouen’s Municipal Library, 1959–1964 (or, The Formative Years)
This essay originally appeared in La Bibliothèque de Rouen: 200 ans d’histoire (s), edited by Marie-Françoise Rose. Annie ...
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True Love at Dawn
The following short story by Yukio Mishima (1925–1970), newly translated by John Nathan, was first published in the June 1965 ...
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New Poetry: Margaret Ross, Nora Claire Miller, and Richie Hofmann Recommend
Enjambment makes music but it can be an instrument of metaphysics too. Read “it was broke / Before they made the avenue” and ...
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Passion, Jealousy, Love, and an Unquestionable Disdain for Art
Acting out of fear is not a way of acting that supports a sustainable future, which would require a meaningful horizon and ...
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James Atlas
The other day we shared recordings of Garrison Keillor, William Styron, and Iris Murdoch as part of an ongoing collaboration with 92Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center. Since 1985, the Poetry Center and The ...
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The Hawk's Cry in Autumn
Wind from the northwestern quarter is lifting him high above ...
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The Color of Neville Brand's Front Teeth
mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.
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Klimt and Schiele Confront the Cunt
turned impotent, and had to be divorced. The nineteenth century, for all its love ...
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Fredric Jameson
“Ideological critique has to end up being a critique of the self. You can’t recognize an ideology unless, in some sense, you see it in yourself.” ...