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Paul Bowles in TangierFrom left, Paul Bowles and Frederic Tuten in Tangiers in the eighties. Photograph courtesy of Frederic Tuten. I immediately found a taxi in...
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Toyota YarisPhotograph by Sarah Miller. In 2007, I bought a brand-new red two-door Toyota Yaris off a lot at a Toyota dealership in the Inland Empire. I...
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New Movies, Fall 2023Janet Planet (2023). All photos courtesy of New York Film Festival. Annie Baker’s Janet Planet is a film that reminded me of what it is...
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Kurt Vonnegut’s House Is Not HauntedKurt Vonnegut’s house. Photograph by Sophie Kemp. In my earliest childhood memories—the big blur we will call the gear shift between...
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Mercedes-Benz CLK 320Photograph courtesy of Colin Ainsworth. “I want to wrap / my face tight with a silk scarf and spiral down / a Cinque Terre highway in...
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Teetering CanariesIllustration by Na Kim. Translated by Imogen Taylor One stifling hot night in early August, I dreamed, as I always do when I have a...
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Citroën CactusThe French Cactus. Photograph by Holly Connolly. “Okay, fine,” I said, when we saw the price of train tickets from Paris to the wedding we...
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An Illegible Quartet and Choreographic ResearchDietmar Rabich, “Kreta (GR), Rethymno, Fortezza, Theater,” Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. In recent months I have been listening to...
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The SofaBerthe Morisot, On the Sofa , ca. 1882. Public domain. In the months in which death swooped down on my father, circling on some days, and...
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The Art of the Libretto: A Conversation with Thulani DavisCourtesy of Thulani Davis. X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X is opening at the Metropolitan Opera on November 3. It originally premiered...
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Dirty Brown Subaru OutbackScreenshot from “ 2011 Subaru Outlack AWD (Walkthrough) .” My mom liked to call the color, half-endearingly, “baby-shit brown.”...
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The Displaced Person: A SyllabusIn an interview in our Fall issue , Robert Glück told Lucy Ives, “I think about the workshops I ran at Small Press Traffic in the...
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Recognizing the StrangerIsabella Hammad. Photograph by Alice Zoo. I wrote this lecture in August 2023 and delivered it at Columbia University at the end of...
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SummerTove Jansson, Sommarön (Summer Island) , n.d., pencil and gouache on paper, 24 x 15 cm. Photograph by Hannu Aaltonen. Each summer, when...
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The Future of GhostsImage of a ghost, produced by double exposure, 1899. Courtesy of the National Archives and Wikimedia Commons . There’s a theory I like that...
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Remembering Louise Glück, 1943–2023Louise Glück’s studio in Vermont. Photograph by Louise Glück. Courtesy of Richard Deming. Requiem for Louise We were supposed to...
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Real PlayAutumn, Sims 2 . Courtesy of Lucie-Bluebird Lexington. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 . I played The Sims a lot as a preteen. It was the...
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I’m High on World of WarcraftThe city of Thunder Bluff in World of Warcraft . Screenshot from the game. It was about four in the morning when the warrior decided to...
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Against Remembrance: On Louise GlückLOUISE GLUCK SMILES AS SHE READS HER WORK TO AN AUDIENCE IN THE HOME OF NORMAN MAILER, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, MAY 24, 1968. PHOTOGRAPH BY FRED W....
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What Lies Beyond the Red Earth?Carle Hessay, Image of the Hollow World , 1974. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons , licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 . A few years ago, I read a...
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We’re More Ghosts Than PeopleScreenshot from Red Dead Redemption 2 . I don’t find myself investing much in the kingdom of heaven. It has always been this way for me,...
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In Remembrance of Louise GlückPhotograph by Katherine Wolkoff. Nearly thirty years ago, during my junior year of college, I took a poetry writing class with Louise Glück....
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Green Ray, Pepsi-Cola, ParamusicologyThe Pepsi-Cola Sign in Gantry Plaza State Park. Kidfly182, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons . The Pepsi-Cola Addict , written in...
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Ask Me About God: On Ye WestScreenshots from “ Donda Studio Session for Hurricane (2021).” After a nearly scandal-less summer of 2023, in the caustic August...
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A Fall Dispatch from the Review’s Poetry EditorDetail from the cover art of issue no. 245, Joeun Kim Aatchim’s Piggyback (Amused) , 2019. Among the numerous accolades I received as...
