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Essays

Battle Scene

Ballet, trauma, and rebirth

Ian Spencer Bell

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Essays

Race Off

The fantasy of race transformation

Namwali Serpell

Conversations

Theater and Its Politics

Art and its consequences

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins,

Marc Robinson

Poetry

Time, Rampant and Flourishing

Jennifer Chang

Poem of the Week

Teletherapy

Brian Tierney

Poetry

Triptych Number 2: Carlos Enríquez

Orlando Ricardo Menes

Painting of wild horses running on a multi-colored landscape.

"His was a cold body, and I held it, and I had loved it, I think, invested it with some capacity for an exchange with me."

Graphic with a hamster atop one house and a gravestone atop another.

Craig Morgan Teicher, On losing a pet—and a deeper love

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Poetry

Take a Body and Replace It with Another Body

Daniel Borzutzky

Graphic with red and orange patterns in the shape of a crowd. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos.

Poetry

Widowing

Prageeta Sharma

Poetry

Triptych Number 2: Carlos Enríquez

Orlando Ricardo Menes

Poetry

DAD POEM

Joshua Bennett

Poetry

The Long Run

Linda Gregerson

Graphic of a pink building with a coffered ceiling and a stained glass image of ginkgo leaves. Laura Padilla Castellanos.

Poetry

American Cosmology

Sahar Romani

Graphic with computer monitor, paper, and tomatoes. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos.

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Conversations

The Freedom to Love

Sexual agency and the meaning of care

Simone White,

Maggie Nelson

Conversations

Theater and Its Politics

Art and its consequences

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins,

Marc Robinson

Books

AIDS Elegies After Ashbery

Sam Huber

TYR Talks

Cathy Park Hong on the Major Weight of Minor Feelings

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

Reimagining the Battle of Algiers

An artist's vision of Gillo Pontecorvo’s film

Kate Liebman

Painting of a building in white with gray windows

Essays

Temps

The law of entropy and life as a fill-in employee, and girlfriend

Victoria Kornick

Photograph of clock at Grand Central Station. Robert Hoge / Creative Commons

Essays

Unbothered

The grace of black nonchalance

Namwali Serpell

Essays

Why I Write

Getting ready not to be

Samuel R. Delany

Essays

The Ugly Side of Sisterhood

On envy and twinship

Jean Garnett

Essays

How to Come Back to Life

On reaching middle age and carrying on

Emily Ogden

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Essays

What Space is For

The forking paths of memory and return

Mairead Small Staid

Poetry

Widowing

Prageeta Sharma

Graphic with a shadowy background and boxes. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos.

Poetry

As When Waking

Daniel Schonning

Blue pattern with a dark blue circle at center. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos.

Poetry

Time, Rampant and Flourishing

Jennifer Chang

Graphic with plants. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos.

Fiction

The Glacier

Idra Novey

Fiction

Short Swoop, Long Line

Andrew Martin

Fiction

Breathing Exercise

Raven Leilani

Fiction

Here I Will Have Been

Matthew Jeffrey Vegari

Graphic with a series of doors and four cats

Fiction

Colonial Conditions

Brandon Taylor

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Fiction

Subaqueous

Joyce Carol Oates

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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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Conversations

A Failed Book Club

How does one decide when to give up and stop reading?

Elif Batuman,

Ama Codjoe

Essays

The Heart of Fiction

Storytelling, experience, and truth

Hernan Diaz

Interviews

Ben Lerner on Writing and Magic Pills

The poet and novelist goes home

Catherine Barnett

Interviews

Aria Aber on the Poetry of Exile

Writing what can't be named

Meghan O’Rourke

A portrait of poet Aria Aber in sunlight

Essays

Changing My Mind

On sources, revision, and order

Lydia Davis

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