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Farewell to a building—and a time
Langdon Hammer
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Western

Izzy Casey
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Replica

Allyson Paty
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Perfect

Adrienne Chung
Essays

My Mother and The Exorcist

How the scariest movie ever reconciled me to loss
Marlena Williams
Essays

On Going Outside

What Edgar Allan Poe taught me about life post-lockdown
Emily Ogden
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"We were an earlier people attuned to cyclical time: a merry folk revolving around its maypole."

Jason Guriel on the forgotten pleasures of analog media

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From Our Winter Issue

Fiction

small life

Dionne Brand
Poetry

This That We Have

Canisia Lubrin
Poetry

The Aeryon R80D Skyraider

Natalie Scenters-Zapico
Portfolio

Terrains of the Imaginary

Finding escape in survey maps
Geoff Manaugh
Portfolio

The Cultural Construction of Identity

The knotty interrelations between text and image
Lorraine O’Grady
Portfolio

Exile and Memory

Reimagining Iran through 200-year-old portraits
Amak Mahmoodian
Portfolio

A Photographer Reimagines the Northern Lights

Maria Lax
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The Dolphin Letters

Revisiting Robert Lowell’s infamous book
Dan Chiasson
Essays

Driving Us to Despair

Soul-killing and racist, the American commute is deeply wrong
Jess Row
Essays

What Space is For

The forking paths of memory and return
Mairead Small Staid
Poem of the Week

Replica

Allyson Paty
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Poem of the Week

Perfect

Adrienne Chung
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Poem of the Week

In 1987

Strummer Hoffston
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The Enduring Legacy of John Ashbery

Essays

The Brink of Destruction

Revisiting John Ashbery’s “Soonest Mended”
Edward Hirsch
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From the Archives

New Constructions

John Ashbery
From the Archives

Strangers May Kiss

John Ashbery
Poetry

My Philosophy of Life

John Ashbery
Books

AIDS Elegies After Ashbery

Sam Huber
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A Call for Papers

John Ashbery
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