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The Measure of Intensities: On Luc TuymansLuc Tuymans, Polarisation—Based on a data visualization by Mauro Martino (2021). Graphing is the practice of visualizing the abstract—the...
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The People Who Fight at Dinner PartiesOskar Schlemmer, Dinner Party , 1935. Public domain. I think most people like to walk away from a dinner party saying, “What a lovely...
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Those That Are Fools: At ClownchellaPhotograph by Sarah Shtern. “Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.” —Feste the...
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Pokémon Is All About ReadingImage by Sara Goetter. The game is played with great feeling. Pikachu, perhaps the most successful soft power symbol of the twenty-first...
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Interrupted, AgainWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau, Work Interrupted (1891). I’m fascinated by interruptions. Things are running along one way, one sort of...
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Chasing It Down the Elevator Shaft to the Subconscious: Or, Getting HypnotizedFlashes of light pulsing through the nebula surrounding the protostellar object LRLL 54361. Image from NASA ‘s Hubble Space Telescope,...
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Undisputed: Fury vs. UsykScreenshot of match highlights from DAZN Boxing . At about 1 A.M. local time in Riyadh, on a Saturday in late May, Tyson Fury and...
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I CannotLicensed under CCO 4.0, Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Last year, a formal tone that sounded nothing like my speaking voice started to...
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Top Three RiversThe Nile River. Photograph by Vyacheslav Argenberg. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons , licensed under CCO 4.0. “Top three rivers. Go.” I...
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Dorm Room Art?: At the BiennaleWalton Ford, Culpabilis , 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Kasmin, New York. Photograph by Charlie Rubin. I touch down at Marco Polo on...
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Feral Goblin: Hospital DiaryHospital corridor. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons , public domain. When I entered the emergency room at 3 A.M. , I knew only that the...
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Anne Elliot Is Twenty-SevenHugh Thomson, engraving for chapter 23 of Persuasion , 1987: “He drew out a letter from under the scattered paper, placed it before Anne...
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At the Webster Apartments: One of Manhattan’s Last All-Women’s Boarding HousesAll photographs by Tess Little. I am greeted by the same sight that greeted tens of thousands of young women before me, the same sight that...
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“What a Goddamn Writer She Was”: Remembering Alice Munro (1931–2024)Alice Munro. Photograph by Derek Shapton. I reread “Family Furnishings” this morning because it is one of my favorite stories and because I...
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Inside Alice Munro’s NotebooksAll images courtesy Alice Munro fonds, University of Calgary Archives and Special Collections” For her twenty-first birthday, in July...
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Old FriendsFrom Cletus Johnson’s Details from “Winter ,” a portfolio published in issue no. 68 of The Paris Review (Winter...
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Wild DesireAbstract 2 from Awash by Will Steacy, a portfolio published in issue no. 177 of The Paris Review (Summer 2006). “Pedro Lemebel, one...
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Televised Music Is a Pointless RigmaroleHerbert von Karajan directing Verdi’s Messa da Requiem in Milan’s La Scala theater. Aired in West Germany on November 26, 1967....
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New Books by Nicolette Polek, Honor Levy, and Tracy FuadMural at the Amargosa Opera House. Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Gia wants to disappear. This is an ordinary...
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The Poetry of Fact: On Alec Wilkinson’s MoonshineAbandoned shack in rural North Carolina. Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, via Wikimedia Commons . Public domain. The quantity and quality...
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Scrabble, AnonymousImages courtesy of Brad Phillips. This morning, before breakfast, I played nineteen games of Scrabble on my phone. I won thirteen. It took...
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Hot Pants at the Sodomy Disco“Pedro Lemebel, one of the most important queer writers of twentieth-century Latin America,” writes Gwendolyn Harper, his translator, was “a...
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Story Time“Un Joyeux Festin.” Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CCO 4.0. There was a time in my life when I went to many...
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The ABCs of GardeningFrom An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children . Kara Walker. A is for ABC book. An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored...
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Anacondas in the ParkParque Forestal. Photograph by Arturo Rinaldi Villegas, via Wikimedia Commons . Licensed under CC0 BY-SA 3.0 Deed ....
