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The Erotics of Architecture, and Other News
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Distinctly Emasculated
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The Trojan Horse of Pop
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Great Moments in Literacy: The Hite Report
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Staff Picks: Disaster, Calamity, Ecstasy
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States of Desire: An Interview with Anne Garréta
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Michael Cunningham
Photograph by Richard Phibbs. By Nightfall, the sixth novel by Pulitzer Prize–winning Michael Cunningham, tells the story of Peter Harris, a gallery owner in Manhattan whose comfortable marriage is...
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The Witch and the Poet: Part 2
The story so far: the author and a friend visit a local witch for an assignment and, unexpectedly, the witch informs Pamela that her destiny is to be a poet. Things went downhill pretty quickly after...
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The Erotics of Architecture, and Other News
Dig those curves: the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, in Rio de Janeiro. Photo: Rodrigo Soldon In the summer of 2011, Phyllis Rose went to the New York Society Library and read one entire shelf...
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New Lovers: An Interview with Paul Chan
Paul Chan is best known as a multimedia artist, writer, and activist, but in 2010 he added publisher to his long list of achievements when he founded Badlands Unlimited, an imprint with a mission that...
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Distinctly Emasculated
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and sexual anxiety. Hemingway in Paris, 1924. History tends to compare Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald—and why not? As contemporaries and rivals, the two make natural...
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The Trojan Horse of Pop
George Michael. I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn’t, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely...
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Great Moments in Literacy: The Hite Report
Read all of Sara’s cartoons from this week.Sara Lautman is a cartoonist who lives in Baltimore. Her sketchbooks are on Instagram and her most recent collection is Ghost Sex.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Staff Picks: Disaster, Calamity, Ecstasy
From the cover of The Violins of Saint-Jacques. I bet you didn’t know that Patrick Leigh Fermor, recognized as Britain’s greatest travel writer during his lifetime, penned a novel, or that it was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
States of Desire: An Interview with Anne Garréta
Anne Garréta was the first person born after the founding of Oulipo to be admitted to the experimental literary group. The conceit of her memoir, Not One Day (2002), is consistent with that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nudes
Innumerable nudes are scattered across millennia of art history, but none look like Alice Neel’s. With radical frankness, she painted bodies outside the scope of most visual art: those of pregnant...
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