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Wax and Gold and GoldGHADA AMER, PETER’S LADIES, 2007, ACRYLIC, EMBROIDERY, AND GEL MEDIUM ON CANVAS, 36 x 42″. From Women by Women , a portfolio...
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115 Degrees, Las Vegas StripPhotograph by Meg Bernhard. It was 115 degrees outside when I left my house, around 5 P.M. My steering wheel was hot to the touch. So hot,...
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August 1–7: What We’re Doing Next WeekManhattan Beach Six-Man Volleyball Tournamen t . Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Licensed under CCO 3.0. Soon it will be August in New York...
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Cooking with Elizabeth DavidPhotograph by Erica MacLean. Elizabeth David considered herself “ not a writer really you know, but only a self-made one”—primarily a...
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FriendshipIllustration by Na Kim. He texted me something during staff meeting. I didn’t answer until it was over and I had closed my computer and...
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Lost LettersCourtesy of Wikimedia Commons and Auckland Museum. Licensed under COO 4.0 . My story in the Summer issue of the Review starts...
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Kim Kardashian Landline DreamscapeYellow telephone. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons . Licensed under CCO 2.0. Last night I had a dream that Kim Kardashian and I were planning a...
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The Final Dead Shows: Part ThreeBlack-and-white Bobby. Photographs by Sophie Haigney. Let’s start with the dark stuff. On Saturday night in San Francisco, after the...
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The Final Dead Shows: Part TwoA very cool van. Photographs by Sophie Haigney. We went to the lot. The lot, my younger brother observed—he was a first-time Dead & Co....
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The Final Dead Show: Part OneJohn Mayer looking good. Walking into a Dead & Company show is more or less how you imagine it would be: there are nearly forty thousand...
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@ErasTourUpdates: Taylor Swift in PhiladelphiaPhotograph by Jake Nevins. An early-summer, late-afternoon light was catching a porcelain figurine of the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus on the...
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The Last Window-GiraffeFir0002, Giraffe in Melbourne Zoo, GFDL 1.2 , via Wikimedia Commons . Péter Esterházy once wrote that Péter Zilahy is the white raven of...
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“Strawberries in Pimm’s”: Fourth Round at WimbledonPhotograph by Krithika Varagur. Hangovers announced themselves on the wan faces on the District line to SW19 on the first Sunday of...
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My Lumbago Isn’t Acting Up: On Disney WorldTurkey leg and sea king. On the first day, God said, “Let the atmospheric water vapors condense and become rain,” and so there was a...
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The New York Review of Books and The Paris Review: Announcing Our Summer Subscription DealLove to read but hate to choose? Starting today and through Labor Day, you really can have it all when you subscribe to both The Paris...
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Something GoodStill from Something Good , 1898. Courtesy of the Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. 1. It’s the...
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Fireworks: On Kenneth Anger and The Legend of ZeldaThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom . One of the most provocative sequences of Kenneth Anger’s career appears in an early short film...
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Dear Jean PierreAll images © the Estate of David Wojnarowicz. Courtesy of Primary Information, the Estate of David Wojnarowicz, and P·P·O·W, New York....
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On Mexican BaroqueCarlos Adampol Galindo, Arena México por Carlos Adampol , licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons . Each time I return to...
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The HolePhotograph by Nicolaia Rips. When he walked into my bedroom for the first time, he pointed at the top right corner of the room. “What is...
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Pasolini on Caravaggio’s Artificial LightCaravaggio, Self-portrait as the Sick Bacchus . Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Pasolini’s pen was preternatural in its output....
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Diary, 2021In these pages, written in 2021, I seem to have been looking back at earlier notes and journals. The story of Pierre—a French shepherd—is a...
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A Summer Dispatch from the Review’s Poetry EditorDetail from the cover art of issue no. 244: Emilie Louise Gossiaux, London with Ribbon, 2022, ballpoint pen on paper. There’s a thrill of...
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On VitaminsMolecular model of Vitamin B 12 . Licensed under CCO 4.0, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Three years ago, I biked into a curb and fell on my...
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Making of a Poem: Leopoldine Core on “Ex-Stewardess”Leopoldine Core’s aura photo, courtesy of the author. For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve...
