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The Nine Ways: On the Enneagram
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“I sometimes picture each number as being a corner in a very large room.”
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Two centuries after the Marquis de Sade, a French exhibition traces his influence. The Marquis de Sade died two hundred years ago today, on December 2, 1814. To mark the bicentennial, Annie Le Brun, a French academic and writer, has curated a sprawling show in the Marquis de Sade’s name at the...
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“Three open legs and a clitoris with a padlock. Could also be the profiles of two limp women with hands behind their backs.”
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“My hands rest open and empty, like half shells from which the pearl has been removed.”
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A Complete Guide to Flinging in Oscar Wilde
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INTERVIEWER I wonder if you could talk a little bit about your life as a gay man. CARSON It’s been a somewhat checkered career as a gay man. I was never totally successful. I think it started in high school, when in grade ten or eleven I developed a fascination with Oscar Wilde. Some of […]
on Jun 29
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“Perfection You Cannot Have”: On Agnes Martin and Grief
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"Perfection is not necessary."
on Jun 28
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37-08 Utopia Parkway: Joseph Cornell’s House
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“She would rather I not come inside the house. Boxes were everywhere.”
on Jun 27
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“Intelligent, Attractive, Powerful Lesbians Conquering the World”
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A correspondence between Joanna Russ and Marilyn Hacker.
on Jun 26
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“I believed the horror movie was the start of how I oriented my time, the primacy of the images that were not my life. Now I know it began with the photos of Polly, inescapable in 1993.”
on Jun 26
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“Billymark’s was the kind of bar that allowed you to feel like maybe you could get it back.”
on Jun 26
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Chinua Achebe was born in Eastern Nigeria in 1930. He went to the local public schools and was among the first students to graduate from the University of Ibadan. After graduation, he worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation as a radio producer and Director of External Broadcasting...
on Jun 25
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The Measure of Intensities: On Luc Tuymans
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Graphing, painting, and Polarisation—Based on a data visualization by Mauro Martino, 2021.
on Jun 25
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Swallowing: I Was Mike Mew’s Patient
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"A few years passed. The fangs did work. I watched my face change."
on Jun 25
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Evelyn Waugh, photograph by Carl Van Vechten. The interview which follows is the result of two meetings on successive days at the Hyde Park Hotel, London, during April 1962. I had written to Mr. Waugh earlier asking permission to interview him, and in this letter I had promised that I should not...
on Jun 25
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The People Who Fight at Dinner Parties
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“There are people who never become openly enraged at dinner parties but I am probably not interested in knowing them.”
on Jun 25
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Those That Are Fools: At Clownchella
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“Goats can make you laugh, but can they make you cry?” Clown Boss joked during FLWL’s set at Clownchella. “Can they make you think? Can they make you care?”
on Jun 24
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"So why then, I ask myself, does this thing here feel so much like life?"
on Jun 24
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Quarantine Reads: The Unconsoled
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With life as we know it splintering and dislocating before our eyes, I found myself submitting utterly to the novel’s uncanny, déjà vu–steeped spell.
on Jun 24
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"Both overassertion and hand-waving seem to be sidesteps around saying something. Like that formal wall: Is it guarding something?"
on Jun 22
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“Who’s to say that Coleridge didn’t interrupt the Person from Porlock, rather than the other way round?”
on Jun 21
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Chasing It Down the Elevator Shaft to the Subconscious: Or, Getting Hypnotized
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“The image was almost certainly a false memory—perhaps derived from a dream—or some kind of psychological projection. But I’d been wrong in this assumption before.”
on Jun 9
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“Neither man had, until this night, encountered a problem in a professional ring to which they couldn’t find the solution.”
on Jun 9
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"In our quick reprieve from our PG audience member, we went straight into the seedy topics of sex, uppers, downers, and then, specifically, heroin."
on Jun 5
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Feminize Your Canon: Ingeborg Bachmann
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She was treated as a delightful novelty: a pretty, soft-voiced blonde with a doctorate in Heidegger’s existentialism
on Jun 5
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Feminize Your Canon: Mariama Bâ
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Bâ, who published her debut novel at age fifty, became one of the first black African women to achieve international renown as an author.
on Jun 3
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Dorm Room Art?: At the Biennale
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“I momentarily perceive these objectively impressive works (at least on a technical level) as velvet paintings.”
on Jun 2
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“I had a very busy body in the hospital and, like an incapacitated president, could merely observe as its executive functions were delegated down the chain of command.”
on May 31
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On the Bauhaus photographer Lucia Moholy (1894–1989), who inspired Mary Jo Bang’s latest collection, A Doll for Throwing. Next year, Germany will celebrate the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus, a school that stressed the unity of industrial design and all other arts. The celebration will...
on May 30
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At the Webster Apartments: One of Manhattan’s Last All-Women’s Boarding Houses
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“Over the next century, as other women’s residences closed one by one, the Webster stood tall on West Thirty-Fourth, a monument to the old ways of living.”
on May 28
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Bread, Banana, Apple, Milk, Goodbye
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Most days, our father’s need to assimilate overwhelmed his desire to teach us Chinese. The list of words he taught us reads like a koan, chronicling the life of a family, that, in lieu of speaking to each other, eats together.
on May 28
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We’re out this week, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2012 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! Just past Tandy Crafts, a dark, unlovely store on the corner of Thirteenth and Sixth Ave, there was a door that led to the shop’s basement and storage area. […]
on May 26
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“What a Goddamn Writer She Was”: Remembering Alice Munro (1931–2024)
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“It was all there: women, mothers, wives; friendship, longing, temptation, ecstasy.”
on May 26
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Inside Alice Munro’s Notebooks
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“The notebooks were where Munro tinkered and experimented, made detours and sudden revisions—where she surveyed the whole field of possibility.”
on May 25
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“Each time I was surprised, and then I’d ask myself, Do I want to keep going? Each time, the answer was yes.”
on May 22
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Satellites Are Spinning: Notes on a Sun Ra Poem
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Sun Ra, the visionary leader of the jazz ensemble he called his “Arkestra,” once submitted a manuscript of poems to a commercial publisher, receiving it back with a curt editorial comment: they seemed written in an alien language. He took it as a compliment. Like most readers of his poetry, I...
on May 22
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“Maybe this is when the running stitch of modernity becomes the seam or side that breaks off, the weave of its theories tearing to reveal a South American validity in the homosexual condition, won back from serfdom.”
on May 21
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Televised Music Is a Pointless Rigmarole
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“The acme of wanton stupidity.”
on May 20
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Photo by Lawrence Impey, courtesy of Graywolf Press Born in Cheltenham in 1958, educated at Oxford, Geoff Dyer considers his upbringing “archetypal, in a way,” and himself “a beneficiary of opportunities that were put in place by Labour governments after the Second World War.&rd...
on May 17
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New Books by Nicolette Polek, Honor Levy, and Tracy Fuad
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We recommend Bitter Water Opera, My First Book, and Portal.
on May 17
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The Poetry of Fact: On Alec Wilkinson’s Moonshine
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“The gathering of fact alone will kill you. The coiling of the fact will then exhaust the dead.”
on May 17
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“As was the case with alcohol, my first and last thoughts of the day are usually Scrabble related (RELATED anagrams: ALTERED, REDEALT, ALERTED, TREADLE).”
on May 16
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“The same Miss Perverse who’s back again, more alive than ever, laughing luciferously with a drink in hand.”
on May 14
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There is no direct flight from New York City to Clinton, Ontario, the Canadian town of three thousand where Alice Munro lives most of the year. We left LaGuardia early on a June morning, rented a car in Toronto, and drove for three hours on roads that grew smaller and more rural. Around du...
on May 14
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Notes on Nevada: Trans Literature and the Early Internet
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“This means that ‘transition’ doesn’t start with hormones or coming out. And I don’t think we live in a culture in which that particular transition has an end point.”
on May 12
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"Familiar faces emerge while reading: the book cross-pollinates images and etymologies."
on May 11
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“Future newlyweds who pretend they don’t see the cohabiting snakes rubbing against each other in the grass. Who say under their breath, ‘Those were two men, did you notice?’ ”
on May 10