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Lessons of the Line

Charles Simic and me
Dana Levin
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Ucky Art

Judith Scott, Eva Hesse, and the visceral power of "texxture"
Lauren Elkin
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Unfathomable Life

As a philosopher, I thought I understood risk. Then I tried to get pregnant.
Anna Hartford
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Spiritualism’s Shadows

On COVID-19 and false consolation
Alicia Puglionesi
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Heat Maps

Desire in the dark
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Objects of Desire

Jars with Well-Fitting Lids

Seeing loss more clearly
Catherine Lacey

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I Harbor a Stillborn Scribe of the German Tongue in Me

On Germans and Jewishness
Peter Wortsman
May 13, 2019
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What We Leave

Stealing pants from a rockstar
Sara Schaff
April 15, 2019
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Cremation Society of Kentucky

A life in burned flesh
Raymond Abbott
April 8, 2019
Louie Bellson lighting Pearl Bailey's cigarette
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Cultural Differences

How fictional portrayals of intermarriage haven't quite caught up
Jennifer Acker
April 1, 2019
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Music in the Second Person

Listening to Opus 110
Mark Mazullo
April 1, 2019
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Myth and Anarchy

Matthew Spellberg
April 1, 2019
A photograph of Ann Petry.
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Nothing New Under the Sun

Ann Petry’s The Street and The Narrows
Emily Bernard
April 1, 2019
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The Hall-Mills Murder Trial, 1926

A consideration of death
Harold Schechter
April 1, 2019
A portrait by Picasso of Gertrude Stein.
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“Sitting at the Table” with Stein and Ashbery

“An Occasion” for Thin[g]king
Karin Roffman
April 1, 2019
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“The Lonely Hearts Killer,” 1957-1958

Notes on a killing
Harold Schechter
March 18, 2019