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Why So Serious?

Sang Young Park’s angrily funny work charts a new path for gay fiction
Spencer Lee-Lenfield
Poem of the Week

Bardascino Park

Grady Chambers
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My Queer Voice

It has outed me my whole life. Why?
Zachary Pace
Conversations

Three Queer Writers on Craft and Cruising

Garth Greenwell,
Richie Hofmann,
Carl Phillips
Essays

The Spaces We Inhabit

How childhood influences architecture
Turner Brooks
Interviews

Aminatta Forna

On suffering, trauma, and resilience
James Surowiecki

"After all, is an immigrant narrative not already a multiverse narrative?"

Simon Wu on Everything Everywhere All At Once

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There I Almost Am

On envy and twinship
Jean Garnett
The author with her sister in childhood.
Poetry

Satyr’s Flute

Shangyang Fang
Fiction

Breathing Exercise

Raven Leilani
Essays

The Wild, Sublime Body

Learning how to be human
Melissa Febos
Fiction

Colonial Conditions

Brandon Taylor
Graphic with a window with an orange glow, cigarettes, and wine bottles
Fiction

The Glacier

Idra Novey
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TYR Talks

Cathy Park Hong on the Major Weight of Minor Feelings

Essays

The Wrong Daddy

Morrissey and the cult of the wounded white male
Jeremy Atherton Lin
The Moment

Strangers in Our Own Homes

The pandemic’s xenophobic discourse
Divya Victor
Essays

In Centennial

The only ones left alive
Cathy Park Hong
A blurred photo of lights
Pandemic Files

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

Monica Ferrell
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.
Poetry

My Sweet Accompanist

Li-Young Lee
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Essays

100 Things About Writing a Novel

What to do—and when to do it
Alexander Chee
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Interviews

Aria Aber on the Poetry of Exile

Writing what can't be named
Meghan O’Rourke
Fiction

The Hermit

Nami Mun
From the Archives

The Decision

Timothy Liu
Poetry

Patronage

Solmaz Sharif
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Poetry

A Nacreous Woman

Sally Wen Mao
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Poem of the Week

Diaspora Sonnet 65

Oliver de la Paz
Poetry

The Nest in Winter

Kimiko Hahn
Poetry

Guilt

Victoria Chang
Fiction

The Reason Why

Yiyun Li
Black and white photo of books on bookshelves
Pandemic Files

Do You Know Alex Oreille

Katie Kitamura
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Poetry

Divine Transformation

Natasha Rao
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Fiction

Mr. Crime and Punishment and War and Peace

Gish Jen
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Notes Upon Arrival

A diary of immigration and lost love
Bhanu Kapil
Conversations

Finding a Literary Inheritance

Four Korean American writers on jeong and the elusiveness of home
Alexander Chee,
Julia Cho,
Susan Choi,
Cathy Park Hong
Poetry

Meeting

Vijay Seshadri
Poetry

The Last Prom Queen in Antarctica

Ocean Vuong
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Poetry

First Snow

Aria Aber
Chimneys in snow. Anonymous / Creative Commons.

Ownership: A Folio

Essays

The Black Shape Slumped in a Chair

Kerry James Marshall and the Taliesin murders
Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Illustration of fluid black shapes and chairs by Laura Padilla Castellanos
Essays

More Joy and Less Cool

What it means to be a skater
José Vadi
Essays

Communalism in the Veld

Rethinking property in South Africa
Glen Retief

Collector's Item

The everyday ambivalence of property
Eula Biss,
Dalia Huerta Cano

Pandemic Files

Pandemic Files

How COVID-19 Changed Medicine

The pandemic transformed the way I practice. Will that last?
Laura Kolbe
Pandemic Files

Lighted Windows in Lockdown

The visible and invisible lives of others
Ben Libman
Pandemic Files

Do You Know Alex Oreille

Katie Kitamura
Poetry

Spring

Maya C. Popa
Pandemic Files

From "You Were Never Lovelier"

Ryan Black
Pandemic Files

The Mother Between Us

Fady Joudah
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 Forger’s Art

The photographer who saved the lives of 14,000 Jews
Adolfo Kaminsky
Letters

Niki de Saint Phalle's Inner World

A selection of the French artist's letters
Nicole Rudick
Interviews

Wayne Koestenbaum

The polymathic artist on his creative process
Brandon Menke

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Shéhérazade

Wayne Koestenbaum
From the Archives

Arendt: An Arguable Elegy

Richard Howard
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