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"So often the self that we forget is worth forgetting, one of our many dull, wasteful, or ungrateful selves—how we’d like to forget the times we have been cruel or hasty or humiliated, however slightly—but occasionally it is not."
Mairead Small Staid, On the forking paths of memory and return
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Styles of Radical Illness
Anne Boyer diagnoses the lies we still tell about cancer
Laura Kolbe
TYR Talks
Sheila Heti Reads from "Les Comètes"
The author reads tales of the stars
Sheila Heti,
Leanne Shapton
TYR Talks
Sheila Heti Reads from "Les Comètes"
The author reads tales of the stars
Sheila Heti,
Leanne Shapton
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The Cultural Construction of Identity
The knotty interrelations between text and image
Lorraine O’Grady
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Conversations
A Failed Book Club
How does one decide when to give up and stop reading?
Elif Batuman,
Ama Codjoe
Essays
How Should One Read a Book?
To read a book well, one should read it as if one were writing it
Virginia Woolf
Conversations
Discipline and Abolish
A dialogue about writing, power, and mass incarceration
Rachel Kushner,
Caleb Smith
Conversations
Game Is Life
Basketball, poetry, and the NBA playoffs
Kaveh Akbar,
Vivian Lee,
Ben Purkert,
Nabila Lovelace
