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We Are Our Choices

The consequences of being severed from your True Self
Nuar Alsadir
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Splice Box & Accompaniment

Flower Conroy
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Skin

James Longenbach
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The Way I Like Best

James Longenbach
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The Abortion Stories We Tell

Do we need to be more radically honest?
Maggie Doherty
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The Feminism of Elizabeth Hardwick

What happens when care becomes work?
Apoorva Tadepalli

"My father refused to let Dumas’s work, which was so rife with ghosts and the overarching specters of white supremacy, rest."

Treasure Shields Redmond The Ghost of Henry Dumas

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Black Hauntology: A Folio

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Raising the Dead

Three writers on engaging and honoring their ghosts
Aricka Foreman,
Krista Franklin,
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& WHEN THEY COME FOR ME (REPRISE)

Golden
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Ars Diaspora with Drinking Gourd

Omotara James

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Worlds Enough and Time

John Koethe
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Messengers

Karen E. Bender
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Having Been Born

Hoa Nguyen
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I Am Still

Jorie Graham
Essays

Camera Mortis

How photographs of the dead helped me mourn
Lili Hamlyn
Ideas

Hard Wired

How evolutionary psychology ended up at the heart of the culture wars
Hari Kunzru
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Nobody Knows That You Are Gay

Imagining a queer archive
Robyn Day
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Reimagining the Battle of Algiers

An artist's vision of Gillo Pontecorvo’s film
Kate Liebman
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Exile and Memory

Reimagining Iran through 200-year-old portraits
Amak Mahmoodian
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Terrains of the Imaginary

Finding escape in survey maps
Geoff Manaugh
Poetry

Berkeley Hills Living

Jessica Laser
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The Day,

John Koethe
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Invertebrate

Nuar Alsadir
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Talking

Robert Pinsky
Poetry

Pacific Palisades

Erin O’Luanaigh
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Gold Lingers

Peter Cole

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The Wrong Daddy

Morrissey and the cult of the wounded white male
Jeremy Atherton Lin
The Smiths vinyl among records on a shelf
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For the Man on His Knees at The Eagle

Francisco Márquez
Poetry

Bloodletting

Alex Dimitrov
From the Archives

The Hug

Thom Gunn
Books

How to Continue

AIDS Elegies After Ashbery
Sam Huber
Release of pink and white balloons.
Books

On Long Poems

Four recent books make length a virtue
Stephanie Burt
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Poetry

Sajdah

Sahar Romani
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For Alain

Anaïs Duplan
Conversations

Three Queer Writers on Craft and Cruising

Garth Greenwell,
Richie Hofmann,
Carl Phillips
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The Wild, Sublime Body

Learning how to be human
Melissa Febos
A woman at the beach with a watermelon
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Wayne Koestenbaum

The polymath on his creative process
Brandon Menke
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The Screen is a Mirror

On gender transition in the Zoom era
S. Brook Corfman
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PLAYA VISTA

Ari Banias
Pink building against a blue sky
Poetry

German Cities

Richie Hofmann
Cloud study. Simon Dennis. Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Essays

The Uses of Memory

Ecstasy in the midst of struggle
Roger Reeves
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Fiction

The Blessing of Kali

Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu
Essays

The Subject of Pain

On Louise Bourgeois
Madhu H. Kaza
Essays

In Centennial

The only ones left alive
Cathy Park Hong
poetry

Arcade

Esther Schor
A painting of a dog. Rhodesian Ridgeback by Carl Friedrich Schulz.
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Self-Driving

Laura Marris
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What Space is For

The forking paths of memory and return
Mairead Small Staid
Interior view of library.
Poetry

A Nacreous Woman

Sally Wen Mao
Poetry

Patronage

Solmaz Sharif
Fiction

Breathing Exercise

Raven Leilani
Abstract ink dots
Fiction

The Shame Exchange

Karen E. Bender
A painting of a bread line